Richard Kavesh to run for Nyack mayor

Nyack Village Trustee Richard Kavesh will announce tomorrow that he will join the race for Nyack mayor.

Kavesh, a social studies teacher who works in the Bronx, will join fellow trustees Denise Hogan and Marie Lorenzini in the race to replace retiring Mayor John Shields. Rockland World Radio proprietor Richard Quinn has also announced that he will run.

This brings the field of mayoral candidates to at least four (and that's just on the Democratic side). Marianne Olive, owner of Olive's nightclub, has also reportedly said she is running, but she has not made a formal announcement.

Kavesh unabashedly calls himself a liberal. He is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Democratic Committees of Nyack, Orangetown, and Rockland.

Nyack is such an overwhelmingly Democratic village that the Democratic primaries are, as a rule, more significant than the general election.