Yes, it was Dan Frisa, and 1996 was the year in which McCarthy first won (DJ reminded me of the name and year in post #91). Frisa won in 1994 after defeating a less conservative Republican (his last name was Levy, but I can’t recall his first name), and in 1996 ran a lackluster campaign against McCarthy (IIRC Frisa didn’t even show up in his campaign HQ on election night).
I hope that redistricters expand Meeks’s NY-06 into Hempstead village and other black parts of Nassau, which would make what’s left of the NY-04 fairly Republican (even with the Nassau portion of the NY-05 being thrown in as well).
David Levy was the member from the 4th from 1993-95 (who was then defeated by Frisa in the primary). Hard to believe at one point McCarthy was mulling challenging Frisa in the GOP primary !