The New York City Districting Commission voted last Friday to make public its preliminary proposal for the city’s reapportioned City Council districts, which poses potential changes for parts of Astoria, South Ozone Park, South Richmond Hill and more.
The proposal comes after weeks of public hearings throughout the city, and accounts for a 7.7 population percent increase citywide and a 7.8 percent increase in Queens since 2010.
Perhaps the most significant change in the borough isn’t even in the borough at all: Should the finished maps resemble the preliminary ones, District 26, which is represented by Councilmember Julie Won (D-Sunnyside) and includes Long Island City, Sunnyside and parts of Woodside, would shift westward to include Roosevelt Island and parts of the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Won was particularly concerned about the map’s implications for Woodside.
“Looking at the preliminary Council maps, it is painfully clear that no one on the NYC Districting Commission has read the City Charter. The commission chose to separate our communities of color in Long Island City, while also disenfranchising our immigrant communities by splitting Woodside into four council districts,” Won said in a statement.
“While it would be an honor to represent New Yorkers wherever they live, I cannot stay silent while the Districting Commission erases the progress made by immigrants and people of color in my own neighborhood.”
She added that the commission “must be held accountable for violating every single requirement mandated by the City Charter,” and that she would fight it on the proposal.
The councilmember’s office did not comment on her district’s potential inclusion of the Upper East Side, nor did it elaborate on which measures of the City Charter she believes the commission violated. When asked about both, Won’s office said it could not comment further, citing a staff vacancy.
Chapter 2-A, Section 52 of the City Charter says, “District lines shall keep intact neighborhoods and communities with established ties of common interest and association, whether historical, racial, economic, ethnic, religious or other.”
13 comments:
Taste of their own medicine. LOL...
The city is just a mess of ethnic silos all competing for power. All under the guise of equity. Equity or equitme?
The DemOrat demand for racism currently outstrips the supply.
Lets Go Brandon...
This is all Joe Bidens fault.
The Krazy Leftist idiocy on display here is just befuddling.
Sheeple How's that "return to decency" working out for you ?
Why are they wearing masks outside?
Empty vessels make the most noise.
They "Libturds" always blaim others for what they do.
If they are saying it, they are doing it.
@“ They "Libturds" always blaim others for what they do.”
Well said TrumpTurd!
Best thing to connect as much of Queens as possible to Manhattan. Their reps are cut
from a differnt cloth. Look at funding for the arts in Manhattan and then look at Queens - on par with that other model of art and taste the Bronx.
Cathy, Brian, Averalla, Costa did NOTHING for their constituents - the Reds that replaced them are trying to build a base with non-voting immigrants and hipsters - that is until their money dries up when that mob in DC is voted out of office.
@Why are they wearing masks outside?
❝Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities.❞ ——Voltaire
❝Most of our lives, we live in realities that are determined by others, imprinted in our brains by education, religion, politics, by authorities.❞ ——Tim Leary
This 'PLAN-demic/SCAM-demic' is the greatest crime against humanity ever to foist extreme levels of fear and paralysis onto a crumbling society in order for America's owners to keep raking in their graft without igniting World War III - which is imminent despite their detour from all previous war crimes that aided in population control. Social disintegration has reached Stage II, with more enforceable destruction right around the bend. Brace yourselves for all hell to finally break loose, peons. But, guess who wins (again and STILL)?
@Why are they wearing masks outside?
❝Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities.❞ ——Voltaire
❝Most of our lives, we live in realities that are determined by others, imprinted in our brains by education, religion, politics, by authorities.❞ ——Tim Leary
This 'PLAN-demic/SCAM-demic' is the greatest crime against humanity ever to foist extreme levels of fear and paralysis onto a crumbling society in order for America's owners to keep raking in their graft without igniting World War III - which is imminent despite their detour from all previous war crimes that aided in population control. Social disintegration has reached Stage II, with more enforceable destruction right around the bend. Brace yourselves for all hell to finally break loose, peons. But, guess who wins (again and STILL)?
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