Editor’s note: This biography was originally submitted by the candidate in first person and edited to read in the third person.
A Great Neck Plaza resident since 1974, Ted Rosen lives in the Wyngate section of Great Neck Plaza with his wife Nancy. They have two grown children, Melissa and Seth, and three grandchildren, Phoenix, Tristan and Freyja.
A graduate of Queens College and N.Y.U. School of Law, Rosen has been practicing law since 1973, primarily in commercial litigation in state and federal courts. Rosen has experience with the legal issues involved in the management of condominiums and cooperatives. Rosen also has experience as arbitrator for a number of different organizations and institutions. Additionally, Rosen has also served as a mediator, an Administrative Law Judge and a Hearing Officer.
Since 2006, he has been a full-time faculty member at Queensborough Community College. He is an Associate Professor teaching Business Law and Business Organization and Management. Previously, he coached the college’s mock trial team which he started. He is also a member of and the Secretary of the College’s Faculty Executive Committee and a member of the College’s Academic Freedom Committee.
As a trustee and Deputy Mayor, he is the Village’s Cable Commissioner, a member of the Great Neck/North Shore Cable Commission and a member and the Secretary of the PATV Board of Directors. He supervises the Village’s Code Enforcement Unit, the Building Department, the Housing Department and helps supervise the Village’s Department of Public Works. He has chaired, co-chaired or served as a liaison to various village committees. He also worked to bring Holocaust memorial programs, poetry readings and safety seminars to the Village.
For twenty years, he was a member of the Nassau County Auxiliary Police, serving as a Deputy Inspector and Chief of the Great Neck Central Auxiliary Police. Active in the Great Neck unit of the Police Activity League (“PAL”), he also served as a coach, grade coordinator, league commissioner, board member and Trustee of the Great Neck PAL unit. He was one of several people responsible for the construction of the PAL building at Memorial Field. He also previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of COPAY.
Rosen has been integrally involved in all aspects of village government and said he knows how village government works. He believes success in all levels of government and, particularly at the local level, is achieved through hard work and reaching a consensus. He works constructively with his colleagues on the Board, to build consensus, even when they may initially disagree, to try obtaining results that are in the best interests of the village and the public.
The Plaza faces various challenging issues today.
First, is the challenge of maintaining the high level of municipal services the Village provides in the most cost effective and fiscally responsible manner. Rosen wants to continue to carefully examine every dollar the Village spends and continue to support efforts to obtain grant monies for projects. Second, is the challenge of maintaining a vibrant and active downtown by attracting new businesses into our downtown and by finding new ways to promote and to market the Plaza. Third, is to continue to work to improve traffic and pedestrian safety through site-specific professional engineering projects and to continue to support efforts to obtain grant monies to pay most of the expenses of such projects.
It has been his privilege and honor to serve the residents of Great Neck Plaza and to help make Great Neck Plaza an excellent place to live, work and shop. He hopes that with the support of Plaza residents, he will have the opportunity to continue to do so.
