Amazon Chooses New York City, D.C. Area for Additional Headquarters

Amazon has decided to open up two new headquarters - one in New York City and the other in the Washington, D.C. area, according to an NPR report.

One new headquarters will be located in Long Island City, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

The other new headquarters will be located close to Washington, D.C. in the Arlington, Virginia neighborhood of Crystal City.

"We can recruit more top talent by being in two locations,” the company said in a statement, according to NPR. “These are fantastic cities that attract a lot of great talent."

Amazon also announced plans to open an operations center in Nashville, according to the report.

Read the full report at NPR.