Local elections in November have prompted Glendale community leaders to re-start their stalled effort to land Glendale its own post office zip code.

Brian Dooley, president of the Glendale Property Owner's Association, said the issue could receive more city and statewide attention with the election of Elizabeth Crowley to the City Council and former Queens councilman Joseph P. Addabbo's election to the state senate.

"Every time there's a changing of the guard with respect to elected officials. I think it’s another chance for us to attain the goal of getting our own zip code," said Dooley.

Glendale currently shares its 11385 zip code with Ridgewood. The median population per Queens zip code is approximately 30,000, said Dooley. According to the most recent U.S. Census data, 94,524 people from Ridgewood and Glendale live in the 11385 zip code.

Due to the overcrowded zip code area, post office delivery services are less efficient, said Dooley. More importantly, Dooley and other community leaders said, residents of Glendale receive their mail addressed to the neighborhood of Ridgewood - robbing them of their community identity.

"I've been living in Glendale for fifty years and people are always saying the same thing," said Dorie Figliano, a member of Community Board 5. "Why are we called Ridgewood when we're really Glendale?"

Figliano led the initial attempt in 2000 to get Glendale its own zip code. Figliano said the post office rejected their request. In 2003, Figliano wrote a letter to U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner asking him to intercede with the Post Office on Glendale's behalf.

An early flurry of support for the plan, led by Weiner, died down, said Dooley, who began reorganizing the drive in 2006.

This November, residents decided the combination of fresh leadership at the city and state level, and a renewed interest on Weiner's behalf, meant it was time to lobby for the project in earnest once more.

"Anthony Weiner's been making the rounds lately in Glendale," said Jack Zwerenz, a member of the Glendale Property Owner's Association. "Things are starting to happen again."

A spokesman for Weiner's office said the congressman is working on the problem.

Dooley said the zip code would stimulate economic growth in the Glendale area and give residents an important sense of community.

"Right now Glendale is not its own separate area and that's very important," said Dooley.

Glendale community leaders said they didn't know how long it might take to convince the Post Office to adopt their plan. Figliano said it doesn't matter - Glendale residents would wait as long as it takes.

"We're not going anywhere," said Figliano. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."