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Queens Is Not A Backdrop
The borough is not scenery for somebody else's arrival story. It is the record.
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Queens gets flattened into shorthand by people passing through it. Diverse. Up and coming. Convenient. The words sound harmless until they become a way to avoid naming who built the place, who paid the rent, who held the corner, and who got priced out after the brochure arrived.