Amazon reportedly has promised to create roughly 6,000 jobs across New York state by 2019.
Amazon said it plans to house its advertising team at the location in the city's West Side neighborhood, CNBC reported.
The Seattle-based online retail titan also will open a new office in Manhattan, CNBC reported.
New York is one of several cities that have signaled their interest in having Amazon locate there, and Brooklyn boosters say their borough has both the space and the hipness to accommodate the tech giant.
Amazon said it will take 360,000 square feet of space at one of the site's buildings, called Brookfield's 5 Manhattan West.
"We're excited to expand our presence in New York – we have always found great talent here," Paul Kotas, Amazon's senior vice president of worldwide advertising, told CNBC.
However, Stephen Ross, chairman of developer Related Cos., says it’s unlikely that Amazon.com Inc. would choose New York City as the site for a new headquarters.
“I can’t see them really coming to New York, realistically,” Ross said in a Bloomberg Television interview.
“As much as I would like to see them, the cost of doing business in New York is far greater than anywhere else. And they’re always looking to do things — at the scale that they do things — not at the highest price point.”
Ross, whose firm is leading the $25 billion Hudson Yards project on Manhattan’s far west side, knows a thing or two about attracting corporate tenants. BlackRock Inc. and Time Warner Inc. are among companies that are setting up headquarters at the development.
(Newsmax wires services contributed to this report).
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