Summary graphic: A group of people walk to The Pourhouse in College Point, Queens from across the street.

“At the heart of the matter is what it means to be from Queens, a 2.3-million-person slice of New York City that no one beyond its borders knows anything about.”

–Invitation to the first College Point Class Conflict Pub Crawl, October 20, 2006

Summary Graphic: A man poses next to a statue of a pirate

We didn’t know what we were going to get ourselves into. We had just spent a week camping and hiking and were about to enter our first “real” city in days. All we knew about Moncton was that it held about 70,000 people and that it had bars in it that would be open and serving beer.

What had once been a nuclear wasteland was now simply Hiroshima, and everywhere you looked were the signs of a living city that wasn’t haunted by its past.