How would you describe the reporting/interviewing in this article?

After reading the article, I felt that Kirk Semple was able to prove his point of view about an increase in tourists in Queens. After Lonely Planet named Queens the number one travel destination in the US for 2015, Semple’s straightforward reporting and his use of statistics from different sources, interviews of important officials and tourists in Queens all helped aid this point. This article definitely let me know as the reader that there are people traveling to Queens and discovering what the borough has to offer. As a Native New Yorker and resident of the Bronx, I was quite surprised to see the increase in popularity in Queens as it isn’t that close to Manhattan. Once I read that there are new hotels being constructed in Queens it did make more sense that people are visiting/staying there since both of the main NYC airports are located in Queens, and hotel rates are cheaper than in Manhattan. Although I enjoyed this article and thought that it was very informative, I did see a hole in the reporting since there were no interviews from Native Queens residents. I feel like Semple could have included more interviews from the locals in order to make this point stronger. For example, the interview with Ms. Sidibe where she asks “where is Queens?” could have been an opportunity to close with a local reacting to the increase in tourists. Even so, this article was certainly a refreshing take and angle on neighborhood reporting, and I walked away with something I didn’t know before I read it!