A former trustee in the Village of Munsey Park will challenge the sitting mayor in village elections next month.
Anthony Sabino is running against one-term Mayor Lawrence Ceriello for the top seat in the village, village Clerk Tara Gibbons told Blank Slate Media via email.
Sabino, an attorney and law professor at St. John’s University who co-founded the Sabino and Sabino practice in Mineola, was elected to a two-year term in 2018 on the Residents for a Better Munsey Park ticket after serving on the village’s Building Advisory Committee, but lost a re-election bid in 2020 when his seat and that of outgoing Trustee Jennifer Noone were taken by Regina Im and Gregory LiCalzi.
Ceriello, an attorney and partner in the real estate group of the Manhattan-based firm Morrison and Foerster, is also a former trustee, having won one term in 2017 before succeeding Frank DeMento as the village’s mayor in an uncontested race 2019.
“It is hard to get people in small villages like Munsey Park to donate their time to the village,” Ceriello told Blank Slate Media at the time. “Everybody’s so busy raising their families and working their job. My family is raised so I have one less burden than a lot of the families who live in town, and I felt it was just time for me to step up.”
Trustee Joseph Williams, who was elected to Ceriello’s vacant seat in 2019, is seeking re-election, as is two-term trustee and Deputy Mayor Antonio D’Angelo. Both trustees are uncontested in their races.
The village elections in Munsey Park will be held on Tuesday, March 16.
