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Can New York City and Amazon get along?

On Tuesday, the internet giant unveiled its first New York location for Amazon Go, its cashierless, brick-and-mortar convenience store concept that has already been tested in three other cities.

It might have otherwise been a humdrum opening, were it not for recent history: Amazon and the city went through a messy and public breakup in February, when the company abandoned plans to build a sprawling campus in Queens after many New Yorkers criticized a deal that would have allowed the company to benefit from nearly $3 billion in government incentives.

Now, Amazon is back, hoping that a futuristic concept it has tried out in cities such as Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago will thrive in New York, a singular metropolis where customers are notoriously brusque, shoplifting is common and progressive activists, union leaders and small businesses remain skeptical of the company’s motives.