Vallone Wins Halloran's City Council Seat

Flushing attorney Paul Vallone bested Republican Dennis Saffran, a lawyer from Douglaston, in the race for Councilman Dan Halloran’s seat on Tuesday.

With 85 percent of the total vote counted, Vallone, who is the brother of Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. and son of former Council Speaker Peter Vallone, received 57 percent of the vote, while Saffran took 42 percent, The New York Times reported.

“It’s a five-year journey that ended today and we got our District 19 Council seat back,” Vallone said to a crowd of cheering supporters at Vivaldi in Bayside. “We made a choice today. Those who want to divide don’t get a place at the table. Those who want to move forward will.”

And Councilman Mark Weprin, D-Oakland Gardens, won another term by defeating Reform candidate Joe Concannon, a retired police captain who ran last year against Avella, as a Republican.

Weprin received 84 percent of the vote, while Concannon took 15 percent.

In the race for Queens borough president, Democrat Melinda Katz defeated Republican Aurelio Arcabascio.

Katz, who was a former state assemblywoman and City Council member for Forest Hills, received 79 percent of the vote, while Arcabascio took 17 percent.

Everly Brown, who ran for Queens borough president on the Jobs and Education line, got 2 percent of the vote.

And Former State Assemblyman Rory Lancman, a Democrat, bested Republican Alexander Blishteyn and Faith and Values candidate Mujib Rahman in the race for Councilman James Gennaro’s seat, which covers a sliver of Forest Hills and Kew Gardens.

Lancman received 74 percent of the vote, while Blishteyn took 19 percent and Rahman had 5 percent.