Sound walls, tree buffers, traffic studies, jobs. These are people who live next to Amazon warehouses now — many of them in New York — quoted from the public record. Every quote links to its source and carries a tag: verified means we read it in the article; unverified means confirm before you print it; paraphrase is a reporter's summary. We include the people who are glad it came, too.
The pattern repeats: the traffic study understates the trucks, the wall is late or never, the jobs are transfers. Ask the Board which of these conditions will be written into the approval and enforced.
Filter by what worries you, or by where. New York cases first.
Withdrawals happen. Amazon walked away from two approved or near-approved mega-sites after residents organized.
Local news segments from other towns, plus a drone flight over the 3.8-million-square-foot Clay building — the size twin of Project Sunrise. Click a thumbnail to play here.
Two hearings decide it: Nov 19 and Dec 17, 5 PM, Islip Town Hall.
Contact the officials who decide How loud at your house? What it does to home values