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Jet Blue Staying in Queens, Moving to Long Island City
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 22, 2010
Modified Mar 22, 2010
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There was alarm last year that Jet Blue would relocate its corporate headquarters out of NYC when the lease expires on their Forest Hills offices in 2012. The company, which launched in NYC in 1999, employs some almost 800 employees in New York, and had reportedly been eying Orlando as a new home. But today a source tells City Room that JetBlue will shift its administrative offices to the Citigroup building in Long Island City. The airline also plans to move an additional 70 jobs to Queens from Connecticut.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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