Armed with blue pamphlets and dressed in a grey pinstriped power suit, City Council candidate Jimmy Van Bramer campaigned outside the P.S. 150 polling station in Sunnyside, Queens, the morning of the Democratic primary, in a last attempt to sway voters before ballots are cast. Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) is one of three Democratic candidates vying to succeed Eric Gioia, who is giving up his council seat to run for public advocate.

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Barbara Glassman took a look around to make sure no potential voters were coming her way and then quickly glanced at her feet to make sure she was 100 feet from P.S. 125, one of the voting locations in Woodside. “I put my toe over the line, and one of the volunteers for the opposing campaign went and told on me,” she said, chuckling at the ridiculousness. “I feel like I’m at a bowling tournament.”

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Queens City Council hopefuls have long lived by an unwritten political law: If you don’t have the muscle of the county Democratic machine, you don’t win. On Sept. 15, Jimmy Van Bramer broke that rule

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