Claire Shulman (née Kantoff; February 23, 1926 – August 16, 2020) was an American politician and registered nurse from New York City.

She also mediated a compromise with the board in 1987, when it voted in favor of a key city rezoning proposal that would spur the construction of middle-income apartment blocks.

Neighborhoods made up of mostly single-family detached homes were against the proposal, and Shulman obtained an exemption for twelve such areas in Queens.

[2] Shulman served as a member of the boards of directors of New York Hospital Queens and St. Mary's Healthcare System for Children.

[11] Shulman established Flushing Willets Point Corona Local Development Corporation,[12] and served as its president and CEO when it aggressively lobbied the New York City Council[13] in 2007 and 2008 to approve controversial legislation[14] that would remove all of the existing private property owners and 250 industrial businesses from the neighborhood of Willets Point, Queens, for redevelopment.

[17] On a state level, then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and his successor, Eric Schneiderman investigated Shulman's lobbying campaign over a three-year period.

[18] Schneiderman eventually found that Shulman's LDC indeed “flouted the law by lobbying elected officials, both directly and through third parties, to win approval of … favored projects”.