It’s tough to be the leader.
In industry, in life, in art there is always somebody looking to gun you down, either literally like the oft-told tales of the proverbial “Fastest Gun in the West,” or figuratively like upstart companies, better-disciplined competitors and envelope-pushing creative talents.
The ability to usurp the leader – that’s called drive; a constant, moving force that compels one to risk failure, to defy the odds and to forge ahead despite the obstacles, all for the chance of success.
Some fail, others succeed. Others still would say that those who failed are only the ones who did not try.
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.
In this issue we honor our artistic and cultural icons, those established leaders that tower over the landscape and those just starting to plant their feet firmly, beginning to stand tall and preparing to join in the challenge against the big guys as our shadows begin to rise in the west.
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