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COVID-19: Visiting the Backstreets, Safely and Sustainably
For culinary explorers, Queens is not merely a way station, it is a destination in itself. The largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City, Queens is the home of well over two million people, half of them born outside the United States, speaking untold hundreds of mother tongues. During the course of a day, you might hear a dozen languages without breaking a sweat. The gastronomic variety is perhaps even more astonishing. Queens embraces innumerable small neighborhoods within neighborhoods, and no single cuisine or family of cuisines holds sway in them all. The local favorites in food and drink, and the favorite ways to enjoy them, seem to change before your eyes every time you turn a corner.
The Best of the Backstreets, In Brief
Our Backstreets Envoys, Always Searching for the Next Hidden Gem
Visual Dispatches from the Frontlines of Local Eating