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Ranked Choice Vote Count to Start in Southeast Queens Special Election With No Clear Winner Additional reporting by Ben Fractenberg
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Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY
The Queens City Council District 31 special election became the city’s first contest triggering ranked choice voting selections after polls closed Tuesday night without any candidate securing a big enough lead to win outright.
Voters cast just under 7,000 in-person ballots in the race to replace former City Council member Donovan Richards, who now serves as borough president. Selvena Brooks-Powers notched about 38% of all first choice votes in early and special election day voting, giving her a 207-vote lead over Pesach Osina, who received 35%, according to the city Board of Elections.
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On Friday, the Umbrella Hotel on 82nd Avenue near Queens Boulevard hosted the city’s first homicide of 2021.
By Michael V. Cusenza
Mayor Bill de Blasio said this week that he wants violence-magnet Umbrella Hotel shuttered “immediately.”
The Kew Gardens inn was the site of the city’s first homicide of 2021. Robert Williams, 20, was murdered as part of a triple-shooting at the hotel in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day.
Friday’s deadly melee is just the latest in a long line of serious trouble for the hotel located just across Queens Boulevard from Queens Borough Hall and the criminal courts building.