Many fear subways will be even worse

Amazon honcho Jeff Bezos will get a helipad, New Yorkers will get a crowded train.

City politicians applauded the Seattle-based e-commerce giant on Tuesday for officially revealing its plan to expand in Long Island City, Queens — while straphangers wondered how the crumbling, overtaxed subway system will handle a potential onslaught of new riders.

Lisa Daglian, director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA, said Amazon should show it can be a good neighbor by shipping in some money for subway improvements.

Amazon will set up shop in the One Court Square office tower as it builds its new waterfront headquarters several blocks from stations serving the No. 7, E, M, F, R, and G lines.

“These stations are already tight. The platforms are crowded, people have a difficult time getting on,” Daglian said. “It takes two or three trains before I can get on my 7 train in the morning.”

That should change by the end of November, when the MTA starts to operate modern signals on the entire No. 7 line — a 15-year effort plagued with delays and constant service outages. It'll let the MTA run up to three more trains an hour.

Meanwhile, the Queens Blvd. lines — the E, M, F, and R trains — are getting new signals to run more trains by 2022.

Instead of paying property taxes on publicly-owned land, Amazon will give the money to the city.

Half of it — around $600 million over 40 years — will go to an infrastructure fund for the community managed by the city Economic Development Corp., which oversees the citywide ferry program.

The rest of Amazon's payments will go into city coffers.