The incumbents in elections throughout the Great Neck peninsula won their uncontested races on Tuesday.
In the Village of Great Neck Plaza, Trustees Gerald Schneiderman, who received 77 votes, and Lawrence Katz, who received 82 votes, both won their races.
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 received 14 votes, enough to retain his seat for a four-year term. Mayor William Warner’s seat and the seats of Trustees Jeffrey Farkas and Ira Ganzfried were not on the ballot after a law was passed in 2018 that increased the term length for the mayor and trustees from two years to four.
In Russell Gardens, Mayor David Miller received 30 votes and Trustees Jane Krakauer, with 31 votes, and Martin Adickman, with 30 votes, retained their positions as well. 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 will serve another two-year term while Krakauer and Adickman will serve four-year terms.
In Thomaston, Mayor Steven Weinberg received 24 votes to retain his position and Trustees Jill Monoson, with 22 votes, and Burton Weston, with 25 votes, won their respective races as well.
Weinberg, an attorney, became acting mayor in September 2014 after Mayor Bob Stern resigned, and became mayor about a month later.
In Kensington, the seat of Trustee Alina Hendler was on the ballot for a two-year term. Brent Greenspan, a member of the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals, was also running uncontested for a two-year term to fill the spot of Deputy Mayor Darren Kaplan, who did not seek re-election.
Efforts to reach a representative from the village for vote totals were unavailing.
Efforts to reach a representative from the Village of Saddle Rock were also 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.
The villages of Great Neck, Kings Point and Lake Success will hold their elections on June 15.
