---
title: "Amazon Chooses New York City, D.C. Area for Additional Headquarters"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/8b8f76ba-52b1-4ba4-b10c-e2b754235657
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/amazon-chooses-new-york-city-dc-area-for-additional-headquarters-2708433
category: "General"
published: 2018-11-13T18:13:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:31:20.430Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/1f10e8fa6970746fa31d774bb0baa2cf898.jpg
---

# Amazon Chooses New York City, D.C. Area for Additional Headquarters

**TL;DR:** Amazon has chosen New York City and the Washington, D.C. area for its additional headquarters. The company will open one headquarters in Long Island City, New York, and the other in Crystal City, Virginia.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-11-13. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/amazon-chooses-new-york-city-dc-area-for-additional-headquarters-2708433).*

## Story

Amazon has decided to open up two new headquarters - one in New York City and the other in the Washington, D.C. area, according to an NPR report.

One new headquarters will be located in Long Island City, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

The other new headquarters will be located close to Washington, D.C. in the Arlington, Virginia neighborhood of Crystal City.

"We can recruit more top talent by being in two locations,” the company said in a statement, according to NPR. “These are fantastic cities that attract a lot of great talent."

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- General (sector)
- new york (location)
- Amazon (company)
- Washington, D.C. (location)
- location selection (topic)
- headquarters expansion (topic)
- talent recruitment (topic)
- Long Island City (location)
- Crystal City (location)

---
Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/amazon-chooses-new-york-city-dc-area-for-additional-headquarters-2708433). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/8b8f76ba-52b1-4ba4-b10c-e2b754235657).