Village of Great Neck, Lake Success re-elects incumbents

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Village of Great Neck, Lake Success re-elects incumbents
The villages in Great Neck held uncontested elections Tuesday with only incumbents running for re-election. (Photo courtesy of Flickr)

Incumbent candidates ran unopposed in Great Neck, Lake Success and Kings Point on Tuesday night. All won.

In the Village of Great Neck, Deputy Mayor Barton Sobel and Trustee Eli Kashi were re-elected.

Sobel received 335 votes and Kashi received 392 votes. The village also received 96 write-in votes.

The two trustee positions are for a two-year term on the board. Both Sobel and Kashi faced their last election in 2022 where they defeated challenger Sam Yellis.

Sobel is a Great Neck-based attorney who has served on the board of trustees since 2010. His prior service includes on a parks citizen advisory board, the village planning board and the Friends of the Great Neck Parks group.

Kashi is a local business owner who has served on the board since 2020.

In Lake Success, Mayor Adam Hoffman won unopposed with 54 votes.

Trustees Spyro Dimitratos, Fred Handsman and Robert Gal also ran unopposed and were re-elected. Dimitratos received 53 votes, Handsman received 53 votes and Gal received 51 votes.

Village Justice Mark Mermel was re-elected with 55 votes.

A total of 61 votes were cast Tuesday night in Lake Success. Two absentee votes were also cast, bringing the total votes to 63.

In Kings Point, Mayor Kouros “Kris” Torkan, Trustee Tedi Kashinejad and Trustee Shahriar Victory were all re-elected.

Torkan received 197 votes, Kashinejad received 190 and Victory received 185 votes.

Torkan, the founder of the real estate company Villadom Corp., ran unopposed in the villages’ 2022 election to replace former Mayor Michael Kalnick. Kalnick did not run for re-election.

He was first appointed to the board in 2019 to fill a vacancy left by former Trustee Ron Horowitz.

Kashinejad and Victory were elected to the board in 2022 when they ran unopposed.

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