Meet Rika

Rika and her husband Mark moved to Ossining over 30 years ago where they got married and have raised their two daughters.  Rika’s public service in Ossining began in 2015 when she was appointed Village Trustee. She is currently happily serving as Mayor She is a graduate of Brandeis University and earned her MBA from the Stern School of Business at NYU.  She spent more than 25 years in management, new product development, diversity management, and eventually Chief Marketing Officer in Fortune 100 companies in New York.   

 

Mayor Levin is the exofficio liaison to all Village committees and is laser-focused on improving technology and communications for the public at large, fair and safe housing for all in the community, environmental improvements, ethics policies, parks and recreation, advancing youth education and the redevelopment of the downtown.  She is focusing even more energy, going forward, on keeping a balanced fiscal policy, code enforcement, business improvements and greening Ossining.
 
She is most proud of the work accomplished during her administration for applying and winning numerous  grants and working “hand in glove” with multiple layers of government to improve our infrastructure: Some examples include over 300 new affordable housing units, senior housing initiatives, restructuring Route 9, adding e-bikes technology to our Village, redesigning and enhancing the community center, improving our parks, redesigning and modernizing parking, and building a water plant for the future.