Residents of six villages on the Great Neck Peninsula will cast votes for elected officials with no apparent challengers on March 16.
In the Village of Great Neck Plaza, Trustees Gerald Schneiderman and Lawrence Katz are running unopposed. Schneiderman has served as a trustee since 2000 and was chairman of the Board of Zoning Appeals from 1982 to 2000. Katz, a certified public accountant and attorney who previously served three years on the village’s zoning appeals board, has served since December 2012.
In Great Neck Estates, village Justice David Schaffer is running unopposed for a four-year term. Mayor William Warner’s seat and the seats of Trustees Jeffrey Farkas and Ira Ganzfried are not on the ballot after a 2018 law was passed that increased the term length for the mayor and trustees from two years to four.
In Russell Gardens, the seats of Mayor David Miller and Trustees Jane Krakauer and Martin Adickman will be on the ballot. Miller entered the 2019 race as the acting mayor after his predecessor Steven Kirshner moved out of the village. Krakauer has served on the board since 2009 and Adickman has served on the board since 2003.
Miller is running unopposed for another two-year term while Krakauer and Adickman are up for four-year terms.
In Kensington, the seat of Trustee Alina Hendler is on the ballot for a two-year term. Brent Greenspan, a member of the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals, is also running uncontested for a two-year term to fill the spot of Deputy Mayor Darren Kaplan, who is not seeking re-election.
Efforts to reach a representative from the Village of Saddle Rock were unavailing. However, in 2019 the seats of Mayor Dan Levy, Deputy Mayor David Schwartz and Trustee Mark Collins were on the ballot for two-year terms.
Levy, an ophthalmologist in private practice, was elected mayor after the death of Leonard Samansky in 2011.
He also served on the Board of Zoning and Appeals, on the Board of Trustees and as the village’s commissioner of parks and recreation, according to his biography on the village website.
Schwartz has served as a trustee since 2011, while Collins has been on the Board of Trustees since 2005.
In Thomaston, Mayor Steven Weinberg and Trustees Jill Monoson and Burton Weston are running unopposed for two-year terms.
Weinberg, an attorney, became acting mayor in September 2014 after Mayor Bob Stern resigned, and became mayor about a month later.
The villages of Great Neck, Kings Point and Lake Success will hold their elections on June 15.
