It\u2019s the road to City Haul.<\/p>\n
A Democratic candidate for City Council in Queens has literally taken his campaign on the road \u2014 moving it into a U-Haul truck after the lease expired on his Maspeth office.<\/p>\n
Phil Wong, the soon-to-be-former budget director to term-limited Councilman Bob Holden (D-Maspeth), had to pack up the contents of his 69th Street office Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI should be able to secure a space [soon], but I will need time to turn on the WiFi, Con Ed, etc.,\u201d Wong vowed to The Post.<\/p>\n
Phil Wong was given just days to pack up his Maspeth office. Phil Wong 2025\/Facebook<\/p>\n
\u201cThe landlord ended the lease. I got a one-line email last Friday telling me to vacate by the morning of October 1,\u201d he said. But Wong acknowledged was on a month-to-month lease for the $2,700-per-month space.<\/p>\n
Wong sent out an email blast Monday night, saying he\u2019d been \u201cevicted,\u201d and asking supporters for additional campaign donations to help secure a new office.<\/p>\n
Christina Cotoia, a rep for the landlord, told The Post the pol had plenty of notice, and was not \u201cabruptly evicted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is trying to capitalize on lies and boost his campaign,\u201d said Cotoia, adding the month-to-month lease Wong signed in May ended in August. \u201cPeople are now threatening the landlord and the building, and it\u2019s disgusting and terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wong has been sharing photos of him working at his mobile campaign office on social media. Phil Wong 2025\/Facebook<\/p>\n
Wong\u2019s offices were in this building on 69th Street. Leonardo Munoz<\/p>\n
The Post was provided with a copy of Wong\u2019s lease, and found it does indicate he would have to move out if a permanent tenant were to come along \u2014 as one did last month. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was paying far below market value, but the agreement was, he is a temporary tenant and if the landlord needed to rent the space to a permanent tenant, he had to leave,\u201d Cotoia said. \u201cThis man is running for City Council and he\u2019s spreading lies and slandering his landlord\u2019s character.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wong was planning to move into a new office \u2014 for $5,000 a month \u2014 as of Friday.<\/p>\n
Holden decided not to endorse any of the candidates seeking his term-limited seat, as Alicia Vaichunas, the Republican running against Wong, has served as his longtime deputy chief of staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the road to City Haul. A Democratic candidate for City Council in Queens has literally taken his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,9642,7033,24668,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1812,4413,59802,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-279150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-campaigns","10":"tag-democrats","11":"tag-landlords","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-office","20":"tag-queens","21":"tag-trucks","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115320733488713148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}