Jeff Bezos Buys $16 Million NYC Apartment—the Fourth Adjacent Condo He's Bought in the Same Building
杰夫·贝佐斯在纽约购买了价值1600万美元的公寓，这是他在同一栋大楼中购买的第四套相邻公寓
Chloe Foussianes克洛伊Foussianes
April 20, 2020, 10:57 PM GMT+8
2020年4月20日晚10:57 GMT+8
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Jeff Bezos is expanding his already expansive footprint in a luxury New York building. After the Amazon CEO put down about $80 million for three condos—the two-floor penthouse and the apartments on the floor below—in the 1912 neo-Gothic property last year, he snapped up another contiguous apartment just below the others.
杰夫•贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)正在纽约一栋豪华建筑里扩张自己本已扩张的足迹。去年，这位亚马逊(Amazon)的首席执行官以8000万美元(约合人民币1.2亿元)的价格买下了这座1912年的新哥特式建筑的三套顶层公寓和楼下的公寓。
According to CNN, Bezos bought the 3,000 square foot condo for $16 million—well above market price, as it last sold for $11.25 million in 2018. The surcharge is to be expected, though, as there is an added value in acquiring adjacent apartments in the same New York City building; it's how many buyers are able to get overlarge condos in a city famous for its small dwellings.
据美国有线电视新闻网报道，贝佐斯以1600万美元的价格买下了这座3000平方英尺的公寓，远远高于市场价。不过，收取额外费用是意料之中的事，因为在同一幢纽约大楼里购买相邻的公寓是有附加价值的;这是指在一个以小户型住宅闻名的城市里，有多少购房者能够买到超大的公寓。
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Bezos's personal interest in NYC has paralleled Amazon's plans for expansion in the city. It's been over a year since Amazon canceled plans for its "HQ2" in Long Island City, Queens, following the public's protests against the tax incentives the tech juggernaut was slated to receive, and concerns about gentrification in the borough. But in the meantime, the company has secured office space for over 1,500 employees near Hudson Yards—far less than the 25,000 workers it had hoped to base in its HQ2, but a significant investment in the city nonetheless. And those jobs are in addition to the over 8,000 people Amazon said it had in New York as of December 2019, including thousands of warehouse workers and 3,500 employees in its "New York City tech hub."
贝佐斯对纽约市的个人兴趣，与亚马逊在纽约市的扩张计划是一致的。一年多前，亚马逊取消了在皇后区长岛市(Long Island City, Queens)举办“第二季度HQ2”活动的计划，原因是公众抗议这家科技巨头本应获得的税收优惠，以及对该地区中产阶级化的担忧。但与此同时，该公司已在哈德逊广场附近为1500多名员工争取到了办公空间，这一数字远远低于该公司本希望在第二季度为2.5万名员工争取到的办公空间，尽管如此，这仍是该公司在哈德逊广场的一项重大投资。截止到2019年12月，亚马逊称其在纽约拥有8000多名员工，其中包括数千名仓库工人和“纽约市技术中心”的3500名员工。
