A special delivery for Baldwin?

Could Baldwin be a prime spot for Amazon’s next headquarters? Town Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney seems to think so, and is asking the online retail giant to ditch its plans for Long Island City, Queens, in favor of the Town of Hempstead.

In a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, King Sweeney, a Republican from Wantagh, wrote that the company should change its plans to build part of its second headquarters in Queens because of what she perceives to be anti-business rhetoric from New York City lawmakers such as U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic socialist from the Bronx.

Ocasio-Cortez, a rising star in the Democratic party, has criticized the deal that would provide hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks to Amazon so it could set up offices in Long Island City.

She has expressed concerns that the headquarters could increase housing prices, pushing low-income residents out of the community.

King Sweeney said that leaders like Ocasio-Cortez, who did not respond to a request for comment, are more concerned with appeasing anti-business special interests than creating jobs.

“We should reject those who would undermine progress for New York from within,” she said.

She also named New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, a Democrat from Manhattan, as another opponent of the Amazon HQ2 deal — which will also see 25,000 workers placed at a facility in Arlington, Va.

“Despite the immense benefits that this deal will offer to New York in economic development, and new job opportunities for young people,” King Sweeney wrote, “ongoing efforts to derail this deal by socialist politicians have been unrelenting.”

Johnson has not expressed opposition to the deal itself, but what he called the secretive process in which Queens was named the winner of a months-long selection process.

“The New York City Council is creating a public process for this deal to be put under the microscope its scale and scope should have required in the first place,” Breeana Mulligan, a spokeswoman for Johnson, wrote in an email, “and the Council will continue to hold oversight hearings and demand transparency from one of the world’s richest companies.”

In her letter, King Sweeney touted Baldwin as an alternative location for the headquarters.

She described the community as a diverse and hardworking hamlet, and noted that it is 45 minutes from Manhattan via the Long Island Rail Road. “This would be an ideal location for new development and is in the process of ongoing revitalization and zoning reforms,” she said.

Hempstead Town officials plan to authorize a zoning overlay district along Grand Avenue and other roads, such as Sunrise Highway, to reduce construction time for mixed-use developments.

New developments could rise up to 75 feet along parts of Sunrise and up to 45 feet along stretches of Grand Avenue. Amazon plans to bring 25,000 full-time jobs to Long Island City across 4 million square feet of office space.

King Sweeney did not say where such a site could be built in Baldwin. The company also said that tax revenue for the state and New York City is estimated at $10 billion over the next 20 years.

Erik Mahler, president of the Baldwin Chamber of Commerce, said he would support bringing any Amazon facilities to Baldwin and applauded King Sweeney for reaching out to Bezos. “Good for her for thinking outside the box,” Mahler said. “Any opportunity is, without a doubt, encouraged.”

Mahler added that while there is not much open space in Baldwin, the community could fit offices for Amazon workers. “It doesn’t have to be such a massive warehouse,” he said.