Queens Borough President Melinda Katz announced Tuesday that she is running for district attorney in her borough, laying out a progressive-leaning platform for the office that includes ending cash bail for misdemeanors and forming a unit to review questionable convictions.  

Katz, a Democrat who is in her second term as borough president, is the third candidate to officially announce that she is running to succeed Richard Brown, who has served as Queens DA since 1991 and who has managed to avoid a serious challenge in elections held since.  

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