question: Lynne Serpe was a Green Party candidate for what westernmost neighborhood in Queens?
answer: Long Island City
context: Title: Leonardo Álvarez Romo
  Passage: Leonardo Álvarez Romo (born 7 October 1972) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico.  Former Mexican congressman in two occasions, he started his political career in 1994 at the campaign of the presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, along with the actual Mexican Senator, Armando Ríos Peter.  After the assassination of Colosio, he worked in the environmental NGO that he founded and called CAMBIOS (Changes) and continued his studies in Political Sciences and Public Administration.  Later on, he was the personal assistance of the famous politician Manuel Camacho Solis, in the Center Democratic Party from 1997 to 2000.  Then in November 2000 he affiliate to the Green Party of Mexico.  From 2000 to 2003 he was the political adviser of the green legislators in the Mexican Senate, and then adviser of the President of the Green party of Mexico.  Later on, he was postulated by his Party as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress as a plurinominal representative from 2003 to 2006.  There as a congressman, he was President of the Special Commission for the Reform of the State, member of the Commissions of National Defense, Indigenous Affairs, Environmental Affairs, and Fishing Affairs.  He reformed the Environmental Law to make the Army and the Navy of Mexico participate in the protection of the environment, also he left a profound study of the necessities of a Political Reform for Mexico.  Then, from 2006 to 2009, he was Deputy of the House of Representatives of Mexico City.  There he was Leader of the Greens, President of the Commission of Environmental Affairs, and in several occasions Chairman and Vice-chairman of the House of Representatives of Mexico City.  He reformed the Law to create the Environmental Police, to prohibit the use of plastic bags in supermarkets and stores, and to create the Forest Firefighters.  From 2004 to 2012 he was the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Green Party of Mexico.  He was elected in Santiago, Chile, President of the Federation of Green Parties in the Americas for the term 2009-2011.  At the moment he works in the Federal Government, at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, with the position of General Director in matters of Indigenous, Legislative and NGO´s Affairs.
  Title: Matt Ahearn
  Passage: Matthew Ahearn is an American politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 38th legislative district from 2002 to 2004.  Ahearn represented a district which covers an area between the Passaic and Hudson Rivers in suburban Bergen County.  Ahearn was elected to the Assembly as a Democrat in 2002, but switched his registration to the Green Party in January 2003, while in office after a much-publicized feud with Bergen County Democratic Organization chief Joe Ferriero.  Ahearn ran as the Green Party candidate in 2003 and lost to Robert M. Gordon, the Democratic candidate for office.
  Title: Frank Koehn
  Passage: Francis K. (Frank) Koehn is a prominent activist and politician in Northern Wisconsin.  He is most notable for being the first Green Party candidate to be elected to office in the United States when he was elected Bayfield County supervisor on the Lake Superior Greens ticket in 1986.  Koehn's 12 years on the Board of Supervisors (1986–1998) is one of the longest tenures in elected office for any Green Party member, and after Dave Conley (22 years) is the second longest among Wisconsin Greens.  Koehn has also been active in environmental, treaty rights and human rights causes including opposition to the Crandon and White Pine mines, support of Ojibwe treaty rights, and support for the proposed Seventh-Generation Amendment to the US Constitution.  Koehn has paid particular efforts to preserving Lake Superior.  In many of these causes, Koehn worked closely with Walter Bresette.  He is considered a founding member of the Wisconsin Green Party and remains active in it.  Koehn was also a schoolteacher in the South Shore Schools in Port Wing, Wisconsin until recently.  He currently lives in Herbster, Wisconsin.
  Title: History of the Green Party of England and Wales
  Passage: The Green Party of England and Wales has its roots in the PEOPLE Party started in Coventry in 1972/3 by four professional friends (Michael Benfield, Freda Sanders, Tony and Lesley Whittaker).  It then changed its name to the more descriptive Ecology Party in 1975, to the Green Party ten years later.  In the 1990s, the Scottish and Northern Ireland wings of the Green Party in the United Kingdom decided to separate amicably from the party in England and Wales, to form the Scottish Green Party and the Green Party in Northern Ireland.  The Wales Green Party became an autonomous regional party and remained within the new Green Party of England and Wales.
  Title: Lynne Serpe
  Passage: Lynne Serpe ( , born 1971) is a community organizer, environmental activist, urban gardener, consultant, electoral reform advocate and politician, based in Astoria, Queens, New York City.  She was the Green Party candidate in the 2009 New York City Council race for New York’s 22nd District, which includes Astoria, Long Island City and parts of Jackson Heights, and finished second in that race.  She ran again for the same office in 2013 on the Green Party line and again finished second, defeating the Republican candidate and two other independent challengers.
  Title: Mehul Thakker
  Passage: Mehul M. Thakker is the first South Asian person to run for a Statewide office in California as a Green Party candidate.  In 2006, he ran for State Treasurer as a Green Party candidate but was defeated.
  Title: Alvin Greene
  Passage: Alvin Michael Greene (born August 30, 1977) is an American political candidate from the state of South Carolina.  He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 2010 United States Senate election in South Carolina.  He was defeated by incumbent Republican Sen. Jim DeMint by a margin of 61.46% to 27.65%, with most of the remaining votes going to Green Party candidate and environmental activist Tom Clements.  He was the first African-American to be nominated for U.S. Senate by a major party in South Carolina.  In the general election, Greene faced DeMint, Green Party candidate Tom Clements and write-in candidates Nathalie Dupree and Mazie Ferguson.  Greene won the Democratic primary race against candidate Vic Rawl on June 8, 2010, with 59% of the vote, despite very limited campaigning and campaign spending, and having no website and no yard signs.  The executive committee of the South Carolina Democratic Party voted 55 to 10 to reject Rawl's request for a new Senate primary after questions were raised about Greene's surprise victory.
  Title: Green Party presidential primaries, 2016
  Passage: The 2016 Green Party presidential primaries were a series of primaries, caucuses and state conventions in which voters elected delegates to represent a candidate for the Green Party's nominee for President of the United States at the 2016 Green National Convention.  The primaries, held in numerous states on various dates from January to July 2016, featured elections publicly funded and held as an alternative ballot, concurrent with the Democratic and Republican primaries, and elections privately funded by the Green Party, held non-concurrently with the major party primaries.  Over 400 delegates to the Green National Convention were elected in these primaries, with a candidate needing a simple majority of these delegates to become the party's nominee for president.
  Title: Adriane Carr
  Passage: Adriane Carr (born 1952) is a Canadian academic, activist and politician with the Green Party in British Columbia and Canada.  She is also a Councillor on Vancouver City Council.  She was a founding member and the Green Party of British Columbia's first spokesperson (leader) from 1983 to 1985.  In 1993 the Party formally established the position of "Leader".  In 2000, she became the party's leader again.  In the 2005 provincial election, she received in excess of 25% of the vote in her home riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast.  She resigned her position in September 2006 when she was appointed by Federal Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May, to be one of her two Deputy Leaders of the Green Party of Canada.  Earlier in 2006, Carr had co-chaired the successful campaign to get her political ally and long-time friend Elizabeth May elected as Leader.  After two losses as a federal candidate in Vancouver Centre (2008 and 2011), Carr was elected to Vancouver City Council in November 2011.  She was the sole candidate of the Green Party of Vancouver for one of 10 seats in the at large election held in November 2011 municipal election.  This was her first electoral success in eight attempts, and she is the first person elected to a major Canadian City's Council under the Green Party banner.  She continues to support the Green Party of British Columbia and the Green Party of Canada.
  Title: Long Island City
  Passage: Long Island City (LIC) is the westernmost residential and commercial neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens.  LIC is noted for its rapid and ongoing residential growth and gentrification, its waterfront parks, and its thriving arts community.  LIC has among the highest concentration of art galleries, art institutions, and studio space of any neighborhood in New York City.  It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; Hazen Street, 49th Street, and New Calvary Cemetery in Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek—which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn—to the south.  It originally was the seat of government of the Town of Newtown, and remains the largest neighborhood in Queens.  The area is part of Queens Community Board 1, located north of the Queensboro Bridge and Queens Plaza; it is also of Queens Community Board 2 to the south.
citations: Long Island City Lynne Serpe