Astoria, LIC Council Race: Julie Won, Tiffany Cabán Apparent Victors

ASTORIA, QUEENS — Tiffany Cabán looks to have defeated Charles A. Castro Tuesday night in the Democratic primary to represent Astoria in the City Council's 22nd District, according to NY1.

Meanwhile, Julie Won seems to be keeping her seat as Council Member for District 26 after running against Democratic candidate Hailie Kim, according to the news outlet.

Here is the breakdown of votes as of 10:15 p.m, according to the Board of Election website's unofficial results.

District 22

• Cabán: 85.5 percent (5,047 votes)
• Castro: 13.2 percent (777 votes)

District 26

• Won: 61.1 percent (3,573 votes)
• Kim: 37.7 percent (2,207 votes)

Cabán, who was elected in 2021, previously served as a public defender at the New York County Defender Services and the Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Defense Practice.

The national political organizer narrowly lost the Queens District Attorney race in 2019 before defeating Evie Hantzopoulos for the City Council seat.

Castro was fired from the NYPD for lying to internal investigators about probing a domestic violence case that ended in the murder of a Queens woman by her boyfriend, who was a police officer, according to The New York Post.

Castro does not have a campaign website, but he regularly distributed flyers of his candidacy in the run-up to Primary Day.

Won immigrated from South Korea to New York with her family when she was 8 years old. She graduated from Syracuse University and worked at IBM as a digital strategy consultant for nearly a decade.

Before she was elected as Council Member in 2021, she served as a board member of Queens Community Board 2 and Community Capacity Development. Won also co-founded the Queens Small Business Alliance.

Kim immigrated from Seoul with her family when she was 5 years old. She attended Baccalaureate School for Global Education and later became a teacher at Hunter College during the pandemic.

She was a housing organizer at MinKwon Center, a nonprofit that serves low-income Korean and Asian immigrant communities. Kim supports making CUNY tuition-free, restricting rent increases, and creating a Public Bank for New York, which would provide accessible financial services for city residents.