In an opinion piece titled "New York doesn't need Amazon's sweetheart deal" published Thursday by The New York Times, Bryce Covert said that huge incentive packages are a burden for taxpayers, and she encouraged other cities to follow New York's lead.

Her new "sweetheart" is a BYD Song EV 300 model, an electric SUV, which she drove home last month after luck failed her family for six straight years to win a gasoline car license plate in Beijing's lottery system.