Google spending $2.1 billion to buy St. John’s Terminal in Hudson Square for new campus (New York: real estate, tech jobs)
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Tech giant Google is expanding its footprint in New York in a big way, purchasing the St. John’s Terminal Development for $2.1 billion.
Google plans on transforming the former freight rail station into a 21st century, 1.7 million square foot campus in the heart of Hudson Square — creating thousands more high-paying tech jobs and boosting the economy of a city working to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“New York’s energy, creativity and world-class talent are what keep us rooted here, and why we’re deepening our commitment with plans to purchase St. John’s Terminal,” said Ruth Porat, chief financial officer for Alphabet and Google. “We look forward to continuing to grow along with this remarkable, diverse city.”
Tech giant Google is expanding its footprint in New York in a big way, purchasing the St. John’s Terminal Development for $2.1 billion.
Google plans on transforming the former freight rail station into a 21st century, 1.7 million square foot campus in the heart of Hudson Square — creating thousands more high-paying tech jobs and boosting the economy of a city working to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“New York’s energy, creativity and world-class talent are what keep us rooted here, and why we’re deepening our commitment with plans to purchase St. John’s Terminal,” said Ruth Porat, chief financial officer for Alphabet and Google. “We look forward to continuing to grow along with this remarkable, diverse city.”
As if residential real estate in that area wasn't already absurd, it's about to get even more out of reach with the influx of tech bros.
I literally just sent this to my friends. In 10 years it is going to be SOOOOOO expensive in NYC. The jobs are paying very well too. People better get off their assess and go hustle some of these jobs. Get whatever degrees and certifications that you need
I stopped using Google services a while back (as far as I know).
I have also as much as possible, I dumped Chrome for Brave, which is almost EXACTLY the same thing except they block all ads, block tracking you, and they even pay you to voluntarily open up sponsor web pages (made about $15 in 6 months)
I use duckduckgo for most web searches, except for when the results are important because the reality google searches are way more precise for now, that's their bread and butter.
But check your DNS servers, if you are using 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 you are being tracked on EVERY WEBSITE you visit by google, those are their servers. You want to use something like cloudfare instead at 1.1.1.1
I have also as much as possible, I dumped Chrome for Brave, which is almost EXACTLY the same thing except they block all ads, block tracking you, and they even pay you to voluntarily open up sponsor web pages (made about $15 in 6 months)
I use duckduckgo for most web searches, except for when the results are important because the reality google searches are way more precise for now, that's their bread and butter.
But check your DNS servers, if you are using 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 you are being tracked on EVERY WEBSITE you visit by google, those are their servers. You want to use something like cloudfare instead at 1.1.1.1
I switched to Brave a while ago too. It is actually just a much better browser compared to bloated Chrome/Firefox/Edge.
Google is indicating it will forfeit hefty tax breaks available for its massive new Hudson Square office building — including widely used benefit programs that Amazon sought to reap for its ill-fated Long Island City headquarters.
The California-based online giant announced Tuesday it will be following through early next year on an option to purchase the sprawling St. John’s Terminal facility currently under reconstruction, for $2.1 billion.
Mayor Bill de Blasio heralded the news as a sign of New York City’s economic recovery from the COVID crisis, at a time when just an estimated 41% of workers are expected to be back at Manhattan offices by the end of the month.
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