70 Votes Separate Candidates in City Council Race
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Only 70 votes separate the two leading candidates in final unofficial returns in a special election for City Council.
Anthony Como, a registered Republican running in a conservative Queens district, is leading registered Democrat Elizabeth Crowley 32% to 31%.
Mr. Como has 2,352 votes and Ms. Crowley has 2,282 votes.
Republican Thomas Ognibene and Democrat Charles Ober are also splitting the vote on the nonpartisan ballot. Ognibene has 27% and Ober has 10%.
The council seat was vacated by Dennis Gallagher. In March, Mr. Gallagher admitted to sexaully abusing a woman he had met in a bar in his district office in Queens.
