Amazon will open a distribution center at Liberty View Industrial Plaza in the Sunset Park neighborhood, the Brooklyn Paper reported, adding that the online retailer has signed "a seven-year lease for an undisclosed chunk of the massive industrial building."
"We'd like to know what the local employment impact would be, especially owing to a number of different reports about unfair labor practices at Amazon facilities," said Ryan Chavez of the environmental justice group Uprose. He also expressed concern regarding the impact of the company's delivery trucks on the area: "Sunset Park is already home to a number of different industrial facilities that depend on trucks. Amazon will have to address the environmental and public health impacts their trucks could have on the community."
