The seats of three mayors on the Great Neck peninsula are at stake in elections on March 16.
Six villages on the peninsula are holding elections on March 16, with the villages of Great Neck, Kings Point and Lake Success holding their elections on June 15.
The deadline to file petitions to run in the March elections is Feb. 9, and officials of the six villages could not be reached for comment or declined to say until then whether incumbents or challengers have entered the contests.
In the Village of Great Neck Plaza, the seats of Trustees Gerald Schneiderman and Lawrence Katz are up for grabs. Schneiderman has served as a trustee since 2000 and was the 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 Board of Appeals, has served since December 2012.
In Great Neck Estates, only Village Justice David Schaffer’s seat is on the ballot for a four-year term. Mayor William Warner’s seat and the seats for 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.
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.
In the Village of Saddle Rock, the seats of Mayor Dan Levy, Deputy Mayor David Schwartz and Trustee Mark Collins are up for grabs.
Levy, an ophthalmologist in private practice, was elected mayor of Saddle Rock 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, the seats of Mayor Steven Weinberg along with two trustees are on the ballot. A village official did not comment on which two trustees’ seats were up for grabs. In 2017 and 2019, however, the seats for Trustees Jill Monoson and Burton Weston were on the ballot.
Weinberg, an attorney, became acting mayor in September 2014 after Mayor Bob Stern resigned, and became mayor about a month later. He has been serving as mayor since.
