They were told the same things we're being told.

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.

Promised vs. what happened

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.

In their own words

Filter by what worries you, or by where. New York cases first.

Towns that said no

Withdrawals happen. Amazon walked away from two approved or near-approved mega-sites after residents organized.

Watch

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.

Don't let Holbrook be the next quote on this page.

Two hearings decide it: Nov 19 and Dec 17, 5 PM, Islip Town Hall.

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