"Civic Virtue" stands tall at Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike, near Boro Hall. Tribune Photo By Ira Cohen
Queens is a borough of successes. We strive to be the best despite the fact that we live in the shadow cast by the behemoths on the other side of the East River. Every day we create a new colossus of our own, let it set its feet deep in our soil and nurture its growth.