The City Council will hold a public hearing at 10 a.m. today on Amazon’s plan to use nearly $3 billion in state and city subsidies to open a major office in Long Island City, Queens.

The Times’s J. David Goodman, who will cover the hearing, has an overview of what to expect.

Team Amazon: The company has already hired a small army of well-connected lobbyists, including a former Queens city councilman, Mark Weprin.

Mr. Weprin was at City Hall on Monday, conferring with lawmakers.

The opposition: Amazon is “facing even more energized opposition from the grass-roots network that helped push Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to victory in a neighboring congressional district in Queens,” Mr. Goodman reports.

A key component of her winning coalition was the New York City Democratic Socialists of America. “A lot of people who volunteered for the campaign are now organizing with us against Amazon,” said Aaron Taube, a member of the group.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez herself has repeatedly denounced the Amazon deal as wasteful.

Why it matters: Last month, a lawmaker told me that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez scares local lawmakers, who see her as the vanguard of an army of activists who could launch primary challenges to Democratic lawmakers deemed insufficiently progressive.