Bezos to create 2,250 Staten Island jobs

Amazon has finally admitted that it’s opening its first major warehouse in New York City.

Confirming a June 19 exclusive report in The Post, the Seattle company said on Wednesday that it’s moving into a $100 million, 855,000-square-foot facility on the West Shore of Staten Island.

The giant e-tailer plans to hire 2,250 full-time employees to pack and ship household essentials, books and toys.

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

New York was the last big US market in which Amazon — helmed by Chief Executive Jeff Bezos — didn’t have a fulfillment center, partly because of squabbles with state officials over taxes and the high cost of Big Apple real estate.

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

Amazon has serviced the New York metro area via giant centers in New Jersey, including one opened in April in Carteret. It’s also creating 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’s June report said that Amazon would announce the mega-warehouse — its first in New York state — by summer’s end.