The author Kirk Semple uses statistics about tourism and talks about the growing amount of hotels being developed in Queens to emphasize that the borough is, or has the potential to, become a new tourist attraction for travelers visiting New York City.

Semple’s main interviewee is Rob McKay, who is the director of Public relations and marketing for the Queens economic development corporation. The most interesting quote used by Semple is that by Mr. McKay, where he quotes a french journalist talking about Long Island City and how everyone in Paris loves it. This is interesting because Semple decides to quote the french journalist within the McKay quote, making it a quote within a quote.

Overall, I found Semple’s reporting style very effective in terms of painting a picture of the type of tourist attraction Queens is becoming. Semple uses descriptive language and also includes some negative aspects of Queens, such as the ugly architecture, as a premise to his main proposition describing Queens as an authentic, multicultural place to visit.