The state Board of Elections on Monday certified Melinda Katz as the Democratic nominee for Queens district attorney, setting up the next phase of the contentious race to play out in a Kew Gardens courtroom.

The official certification Monday afternoon followed a two-week manual recount in the primary between Katz, the Queens borough president, and Tiffany Cabán, a 31-year-old public defender and political upstart who ran on a progressive platform of criminal justice reforms.

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