Both have run for office before. Osina has run for the City Council, and Sullivan has run twice before in AD23. Osina and Sullivan both champion local issues, including the QueensLink and the Rockaway trauma hospital plan, and want to increase support for the NYPD. <\/p>\n
Osina won the primary in June over attorney Mike Scala, dominating in the district\u2019s Orthodox Jewish community despite losing the majority of the district\u2019s voting precincts. <\/p>\n
The only other race that may be contested is the re-match between Democratic incumbent Thomas Suozzi and Republican Mike LiPetri in the 3rd Congressional District. The district only includes a small portion of northern Queens. Suozzi defeated LiPetri by three percentage points in 2024. <\/p>\n
Other races to look out for<\/p>\n
Queens will have several new elected officials after Tuesday, following a flurry of retirements and the victories of the Democratic Socialists of America in Western Queens during this year\u2019s primaries.<\/p>\n
DSA members David Orkin, Claire Valdez and Aber Kawas are likely to defeat their conservative opponents on Tuesday. Their fellow DSAers, Samantha Kattan and Brian Romero, who was not endorsed by the group, do not have opponents. <\/p>\n
In other parts of the borough, Nathaniel Hezekiah will succeed Assemblymember Vivien Cook and has no opponent, and Joe Crowley relative Patrick Martinez is likely to defeat his Republican opponent and succeed Assemblymember Steven Raga. <\/p>\n
Judicial races <\/p>\n
Several candidates are running to fill seats on the bench in Queens. <\/p>\n
Running to fill three open vacancies in the Supreme Court are Edwin Novillo, Oma Phillips and Gail Adams, all of whom are supported by the Queens Democratic Party. Gary Muraca and David Bellon are running as Republicans, and both are attorneys.<\/p>\n
Seeking ascension to boroughwide Civil Court are Democrats Jasmine Valle-Bueno and Edmond Wong and Republicans Michael Mossa and Thomas Barra. Julie Milner is on both the Republican and the Democratic lines. <\/p>\n
Democrat Janet Ellen Keller and Republican Stephen Dachtera are running for Civil Court, 2nd Municipal District, which includes Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, Corona, Sunnyside, Woodside and parts of Forest Hills. <\/p>\n
Democrat Michelle Ann McSweeney-Ortiz and Republican William Shanahan are running for the Civil Court, 3rd Municipal District, which includes Maspeth, Ridgewood, Glendale, Ozone Park, South Ozone Park and Howard Beach. <\/p>\n
Edward Irizarry, a Democrat, is running unopposed for the Civil Court, 4th Municipal District which includes Jamaica, Rochdale, Springfield Gardens, Cambria Heights, Hollis, Queens Village and Glen Oaks. <\/p>\n
Ballot props <\/p>\n
There are also five ballot proposals on the two-page ballots Queens voters will be filling out on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
All five come from the Commission on Government Efficiency, or COGE, the New York City Charter Revision Commission created in May by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Four of the five are geared towards making government faster. <\/p>\n
The following descriptions are via NYC Votes<\/p>\n
Proposal 1 would loosen the permitting process for public sidewalks and streets to speed up the installation of accessibility ramps, benches, electrical poles, bus shelters and outdoor cafes.<\/p>\n
Proposal 2 would change the city’s contracting process. It would also require regular, quarterly meetings of the Procurement Policy Board.<\/p>\n
Proposal 3 would speed up major transportation projects like bike lanes and road redesigns, the sale or lease of certain city-owned properties, and the acquisition of office space for city employees.<\/p>\n
Proposal 4 would streamline construction projects by adding more agency officials to approve construction projects, create a centralized construction permitting system, and move waterfront construction permitting to the Department of Buildings. <\/p>\n
Proposal 5 would set savings targets for the city\u2019s Rainy Day Fund, and require the city to regularly report on how it puts money into it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both have run for office before. Osina has run for the City Council, and Sullivan has run twice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-391668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}