Primary Wins Go to Kavanagh in State Senate Race, Goldman for Congress

State Senate incumbent Brian Kavanagh, left, and 10th Congressional District candidate Daniel Goldman came out ahead in their Democratic primary races. Photos: Carl Glassman/Tribeca Trib (Kavanagh); the Goldman campaign (Goldman)

In Tuesday's two Democratic primary contests aimed at Lower Manhattan voters, state Senate incumbent Brian Kavanagh and Congressional hopeful Daniel Goldman are the declared victors—one in a rout, the other by a hair.  

Emerging from a crowded field of contenders battling to represent the 10th Congressional District, first-time candidate Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who touted his role as lead Democratic counsel in the first impeachment of Donald Trump, squeaked by Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Nou by some 1,300 votes (26% to 24%). Both came in well ahead of their next closest rivals, Mondaire Jones and Carlina Rivera. A split in the progressive vote of his opponents appears to have given the more moderate Goldman, a Tribeca resident and heir to the Levi Strauss & Co. fortune, the boost he needed to win. Goldman spent millions of his own money on the campaign.

With some absentee ballots yet to be tallied, Nou announced at her election night party that she would not concede until “we count every vote,” City & State New York reported [1].  The Associated Press called Goldman the winner.

In the race to represent Lower Manhattan in the 27th State Senate District, Kavanagh handily beat back his two challengers, garnering about 58% of the vote to Vittoria Fariello’s 29%. Danyela Souza Egorov trailed with about 12%. Only about 22,500 voters cast ballots in the race.

During the campaign, Kavanagh, a former state Assemblyman who came to the senate in 2017, emphasized his work on tenant-friendly legislation as chairman of the Senate Housing Committee as well as his efforts to pass stricter gun laws. Fariello, a lawyer and district leader active in the Coalition for a 100% Affordable 5 World Trade Center, made affordable housing a centerpiece of her appeal to Downtown voters. Egorov, the vice president of the District 2 Community Education Council and advocate for charter schools, focused on the issues of crime and education.