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Office space: Less than a year after Amazon backed out of its second headquarters deal with New York City, the mega-online retailer is signing a new lease for 335,000 square feet in Hudson Yards, the Wall Street Journal reported late Friday. With just over 1,500 jobs promised by 2021, the company will bring a much smaller workforce to Manhattan’s newest neighborhood instead of the 25,000 jobs promised for Amazon’s HQ2 in Long Island City. Facebook is also loading up on office space at the site.