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SHARE: This election, four out of the five borough presidents’ seats are open, which has led to a significant number of candidates running for these largely ceremonial offices. Final results will not be certified for several weeks, but preliminary results of first choice votes show City Council Member Antonio Reynoso with a sizable lead in Brooklyn and City Council Member Vanessa Gibson comfortably ahead in the Bronx. Other races, including in Queens and in the Republican primary in Staten Island, were too close to call. In Staten Island, embattled former Congress Member Vito Fosella was...

New ‘Staten Island First’ Party Spawned by Democratic Borough President Candidate With Additional Reporting by Rachel Holiday Smith Share this story Clifford Michel/ THE CITY Staten Island voters could see a new political party on their general election ballots: “Staten Island First,” THE CITY has learned. Mark Murphy, the Staten Island Democratic Party-backed candidate for borough president, is collecting signatures with two other Democrats to run in the general election on his new independent ballot line whose name echoes the Trumpian “America First” motto. Murphy wou...

Former congressman Vito Fossella joins borough president race Updated Mar 17, 2021; Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Former Congressman Vito Fossella announced during an interview on the John Catsimatidis radio show Tuesday that he will run for Staten Island borough president, and said he thinks he can “make the difference” for the borough. “I was born and raised in Staten Island. I feel like the people of Staten Island always expected and deserved the strongest voice possible to represent their interest,” Fossella said during the interview. “We are not a group of folks who su...

Election 2021: Immigrant and labor leader wants to be the next borough president Updated Mar 08, 2021; Posted Mar 08, 2021 Radhakrishna Mohan poses for a portrait photo. He is running for Staten Island Borough President in the 2021 election. (Courtesy: Mohan campaign) Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Radhakrishna Mohan immigrated to America in 1989, built a career in computer science while serving as a labor leader, and thinks he’s the right choice to be the next Staten Island Borough President. In an interview with the Advance/SILive.com, Mohan, who ran for Congress in 2018 and los...

Once Undocumented Immigrant & Now Attorney Announces BP Run In NYC's Most Conservative Borough arrow Cesar Vargas at a naturalization ceremony. Cesar Vargas Twitter Cesar Vargas remembers praying at a cathedral in Puebla, Mexico when he was five years old before embarking on a 1800-mile journey to the border town of Tijuana with his siblings and mother. He crossed with his family into the U.S. without legal papers, traveling to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn to live with Vargas’ older brothers who were teenagers at the time. “Brighton Beach was a hub for new immigrants...