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Anti-Tourism NYC summary of Queens:
When people talk about New York City being a "melting pot of immigrants", they are probably talking about the borough of Queens. The thing is Queens appears to be the most multicultural borough in all of NYC, where each neighborhood seems to possess it's own distinct nationality.
Sadly though, Queens does not experience much tourism despite it's multiculturalism. This can be due to Queens being most difficult to travel to of the 4 connected boroughs (Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and The Bronx). Many trains go to Queens, but they don't cover the entire borough, and buses do travel far out through Queens, but people don't like riding buses as much as trains. Also, Queens doesn't offer much that would interest the typical tourist because it is very suburban compared to the rest of the 4 connected boroughs.
Queens takes up a huge majority of New York City. It's the largest of all the boroughs with the second highest population of people currently living there. It's huge, and oddly shaped compare to the rest of the boroughs with a lot of islands to the north and a peninsula way down south. Due to it's size, you're in for a borough with diverse neighborhoods, ranging from beach-based areas, to ghettos, to strictly Spanish speaking neighborhoods, and a hell of a lot of suburban neighborhoods. It's diverse as any other borough is, but something about Queens makes it stand out more than any other borough. This is because Queens is as "ordinary" as any other borough, which is not a bad thing because somewhere within the connected city, there has to be a place that isn't shrouded with tourism and constant media attention. The borough is "real" in other words. |
