Amazon confirms it’s opening a giant warehouse in Staten Island

Am🌳azon has finally admitted that it’s opening ꦜits first major warehouse in New York City.

Confirming an exclusive report in The Post, the Seattle-bas♊ed web giant saidꦺ on Wednesday that it’s moving into a $100 million, 855,000-square-foot facility on the west shore of Staten Island.

New York was the last big US ma🧔rket in which Amazon didn’t have a fulfillment center, partly because of squabbles with state officials over taxes and because of the high cost of real estate in the city.

“The support of local leaders has been instrumental in our ability to come to New York,” said Sanjay Shah, Amazon’s vice president of customer f♒ulfillment, in a statement. “And we are grateful for the welcome we have receive✨d.”

The company will receive 🐼up to $18 million in tax credits through the state’s Excelsior Jobs Program. Those tax credits will be based on providing the new jobs over five years and retaining 886 existing jobs in the state, officials sai🍒d.

Amazon has serviced the New York metro area via giant centers in New Jersey, including one opened in April in Carteret. It’s also opening others in Cranbury, Edison and Logan as the company ramps up this year෴ the number of fulfillment centers it operates across the country.

The Post reported in June that Am🐓azon would announce the mega-warehouse — its first in New York state — by summe♚r’s end.

Amazon says it 🍸will hire 2,250 full-time employees at the facility to pack and ship household essentials, bookꦆs and toys.

Boroug💜h President James Oddo said t𒅌he job benefit is historic.

“We’ve been talking about the West Shore of State Island as our 🔜borough’s ‘Jobs Coast,’ and today that talk becomes a reality in a big way,” he said. “In fact, this project will be the biggest single💮 job creator in our borough’s history.”

But Amazon li𒀰kewise confirmed that the facility will be partly staffed by robots, describing it as a “state-of-the-art” fulfillment center that will feature “advanced robotics” machinery.

“Amazon will very likely have 5,000 KIVA robots deployed in the facility to as🔯sist the order picking and storage functions,” said Marc Wulfraat, president of MWPVL, a logistics con🅺sulting firm in Quebec.

“What this means is t🎉hat people will not have to travel throughout the facility to find an item. Instead the robotic vehicles will bring the goods to a workstation where the operator can perform the picking or storage work.”

Previously Amazon🌳 workers travelled 11 to 12 miles a day up and down aisles with carts to pick customer orders, Wulfraat added.

Amazon said 𝔍the facility will open in 2018. It’s being developed by Matrꦑix Development Group.

The company has much smaller facilities in the city, including a Prime Now hജub on W. 34th St. and one in Brooklyn’s๊ Sunset Park.