Condo at swanky Skyline Towers on Long Island City’s waterfront
Posted on 06/07/2026 4:30:02 AM PDT by Libloather
An NYC councilwoman running for Congress owes $25,000 in back rent after squatting for five months in a luxury high-rise, according to her ex-landlord and court documents.
Councilwoman Julie Won (D-Queens) and her family vacated a one-bedroom condo at swanky Skyline Towers on Long Island City’s waterfront on Monday — three days after being slapped with eviction papers by the condo’s owner, Justin Chae, a top NYC political consultant and former family friend.
The gleaming-glass, 67-story skyscraper includes a fitness center with a swimming pool, a sauna and spa, a yoga room, and other A-list amenities.
However, Won insisted to The Post that she and her political strategist husband Eugene Noh never signed any lease on the luxury pad, claiming Chae forged her name onto a bogus lease agreement.
Chae, whose unit is valued at nearly $1 million, said he agreed to let the power couple and their two young children move in rent-free in November 2024, under a one-year lease that he shared with The Post.
He offered the free rent as a bonus to Noh, a fellow Korean-American, for agreeing to work as vice president of campaigns at Chae’s company, Legion Outreach Consultants. Their families have known each other since the 1980s, Chae said.
The business relationship never worked out, and Noh’s employment was terminated on June 26, according to the petition Chae filed in Queens Housing Court.
Chae told The Post he agreed to let the family reside there rent-free until the end of 2025 and then charge $5,000 monthly rent if they wanted to stay.
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” He offered the free rent as a bonus to Noh, a fellow Korean-American, for agreeing to work as vice president of campaigns at Chae’s company “
And Eugene Noh’s taxes reflect this “in-kind” income?
Condo at swanky Skyline Towers on Long Island City’s waterfront
It might be said that America is getting the best and brightest immigrants. I don’t think we are. They seem to be scammers on down to death merchants.
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