Justin Hocking is the Executive Director of Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, Oregon. Portions of “The Last Neighborhood I Loved: Rockaway, Queens” were excerpted from his forthcoming memoir, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld (Graywolf Press, September 2013).
Late summer 2005 and everything’s under water. The news warns us that New York City could be the next New Orleans—flooded subways, ten thousand shattered windows.