With the exception of two trustee races in Flower Hill and Roslyn Estates, two incumbent mayors, six incumbent trustees and an incumbent village justice were re-elected in municipalities across the Roslyn area on Tuesday.
Notably absent from the list is the Village of Roslyn Harbor, which will not hold elections this year.
ROSLYN ESTATES
Mayor Paul Leone Peters and Trustee Brett Auerbach were re-elected to two-year terms. Resident Susan Rubenstein was elected to her first term, and will succeed retiring Trustee Georgann Polatov. Village Justice Robert Mauer also won re-election.
While Peters, Auerbach and Rubenstein were the only candidates who filed petitions to run as mayor and trustees, write-in challengers did appear for both positions. For mayor, Badia Zara received nine write-in votes, and Steve Halpert recieved two write-in votes. For trustee, Zara, Clare Peters and Eyal Isaac received one vote apiece, while George Fountoulatis received three votes. Mauer did not see any challengers.
Peters received 46 votes, Auerbach received 38 votes, Rubenstein received 51 votes, and Mauer received 44 votes.
ROSLYN
Mayor John Durkin and Trustees Marta Genovese and Sarah Oral all won two-year terms, an announcement made following an hour-and-20-minute delay at the village’s Board of Trustees meeting late Tuesday night which Durkin said was due to a delay in receiving the results from the Nassau County Board of Elections.
Durkin received 107 votes, Genovese receved 87, and Oral received 90.
For write-in candidates, Brad Schwartz received 62 votes for mayor, and Jing Sun and Giovanny Fernandez each received 61 votes for trustee.
FLOWER HILL
Trustee Frank Genese won a third term, Trustee Mary Jo Collins won her first full two-year term after serving the rest of Mayor Brian Herrington’s term as a trustee, and Trustee Claire Dorfman, who was appointed last November after the late Mayor Robert McNamara was elected a trustee, won a one-year term.
Financial professional and Flower Hill native Max Frankel, running on the Flower Hill Party line with the three incumbents, won to succeed retiring Trustee Jay Beber. He is the village’s first second-generation trustee in recent memory, with his mother, Ann Frankel, having served in the role in the 1990s.
“I’m happy to join the board, and for my three other trustees,” Frankel said in a phone interview. “It was a big win for the Flower Hill Party, and we’ll be glad to keep working to making the village a better place.”
In addition to the four registered candidates, four additional write-ins were given. Jing Sun received two votes, and Brad Schwartz, Geovanny Fernandez and Donald Trump each received one vote apiece.
Dorfman received 125 votes, Frankel received 124, Collins received 121, and Genese received 120.
