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NY Assembly Map: Meet your new district. Same as the old district.
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Jon Campbell
Published Apr 24, 2023
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Your new New York State Assembly district is pretty much the same as your old district.
The state Legislature on Monday approved new Assembly district lines that will take effect for the 2024 elections, replacing a nearly identical set of districts that were just put into place for last year’s races before a court threw them out.
The state Independent Redistricting Commission, a bipartisan group appointed largely by legislative leaders, drew the new lines. The commission had originally put forward a draft that would have made considerable changes before settling on a revised proposal last week mirroring the lines already in place, which lawmakers themselves drew last year after the commission gridlocked.
“I think the [commission] listened to the testimony that was given to them throughout all of the hearings across the state, and I think they came back with a fair map,” Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx, told reporters at the Capitol on Monday.
The state Assembly and Senate approved the lines by a wide margin Monday. They’ll now head to Gov. Kathy Hochul for approval.
The governor had previously signed the current, similar lines into law just last year. But not everyone is happy.
Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said the commission’s final product shows its name is a misnomer, since the lines it came up with so closely resembled the lawmaker-drawn lines.
“It's just another example of how this so-called Independent Redistricting Commission is anything but independent, and that's what New Yorkers should demand, that there be independent lines drawn for Senate, Assembly and Congress.”
Asian advocacy groups, meanwhile, denounced the newly redrawn map, arguing it continues to split Indo-Caribbean and South Asian communities in Queens. The commission’s initial proposal this year would have unified those communities in Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park.
“These maps are nonsensical and will hurt all of the residents in our neighborhood,” Anjali Seegobin, civil engagement coordinator for the South Queens Women’s March, said. “It sends a message to us all that our community yet again is not cared for.”
Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, D-Queens, voted for the new map, but raised concern about splitting the South Asian vote, questioning why the commission didn’t stick to its draft when it came to unifying those communities.
“The [commission] continued this legacy of ensuring that one community is broken into three districts,” Mamdani said. “I rise to register my opposition to that.”
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Giulia Heyward
Giulia Heyward is a breaking news reporter on the Day-Of desk. She previously worked at NPR, as a breaking news reporter, and the New York Times, as a reporting fellow on the national desk. Her work has also appeared in CNN, The Atlantic and Politico. Got a tip? Email [email protected] or more securely on signal at 917-715-1458.
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Jon Campbell
Jon Campbell covers the New York State Capitol for WNYC and Gothamist. Prior to that, he covered the Capitol for more than a decade for the USA TODAY Network. He has twice earned the Walter T. Brown Memorial Award, an honor given annually by the Legislative Correspondents Association alumni for outstanding state government coverage. Jon grew up in the Buffalo area and graduated from the University at Albany. Got a tip? Email Jon at [email protected] or Signal at JonCampbellNY.90.
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