Can it be blocked?: Unlikely because the deal is being arranged through a state agency under Governor Cuomo’s control. Still, court challenges are likely. Because this is New York.

The politics: It’s a tale of two progressives, as The Times’s Eliza Shapiro noted.

On one side is Mr. de Blasio, who has worked to keep Walmart stores out of New York and often decries the influence of money. In July, we wrote a story headlined, “Bill de Blasio Is a Progressive. But Is He Progressive Enough?”

On the opposing side is the congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the Bronx and Queens (though her district does not include Long Island City). She has spoken out against the deal.

The Onion’s take: “New York City Announces Subway Just For Amazon Employees Now”

2. While you were waiting on line, voting machines were on ice

From The Times’s William Neuman at City Hall:

With a huge turnout expected for Election Day, you might have thought that the Board of Elections would have placed as many ballot scanners as possible at its 1,200 polling places.

But even as scanners were jamming all around town, causing lengthy delays, the board had about 1,000 scanning machines in storage, election officials said on Tuesday.

Michael Ryan, the executive director of the board, said it “deployed” about 4,000 scanners. The board owns more than 5,000.

A Manhattan board member, Frederic M. Umane, tried to explain why.

He said the redesign and relocation in recent years of many polling sites to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act had reduced the space available to set up machines — and that the board therefore could not have distributed more of them.