The new king of the Great Neck Library

have lawn signs!”

Rory Lancman had moved to Great Neck only months before he ran for library trustee, and suddenly he was all over the verge.

He moved in like a big city slicker letting the rubes know how it’s done. He had a cadre of strangers knocking on doors and, judging from my unofficial poll, most residents did not welcome a solicitation to vote for someone they had never heard of. Lancman has a résumé from New York City politics that reads like a treasure hunt. He ran for this, and then that, and then for something else. He seemed a bird in search of a perch or as one person more jaded about politicians put it, a man trying to avoid having a regular job.

Mimi Hu was president of the Great Neck Library board of trustees for the year 2022. It was her fourth year in her four-year term, and she had earned her stripes contending with some folks whose actions portray them as people who want to kill the library.

She had led the library even as one board member, Barry Smith, was party to a lawsuit in which he asked

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