NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A redrawn map of New York City split communities and forced two Manhattan Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney to face each other in the Democratic primary this summer.
A court-appointed special master drew new maps for the districts of New York. The draft came out on Monday splitting up many areas around Manhattan.
“Districts look good on the map but don't really reflect how different communities live in associate,” Susan Lerner from Common Cause New York told Steve Burns of WCBS 880. “It disregarded the historical association of the people in that district, who very strongly identify as East siders or West siders.”
Lerner said that the map prized compact districts over coherent districts. The special master also split Bed Stuy in three ways and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries spoke against it.
“We have a problem with these maps,” Jeffries said at a press conference on Tuesday. “It would make Jim Crow blush. So this vessel master decides to take the Bedford Stuyvesant community and shatter it into pieces, one of the most iconic black communities in America.”
The East Side and West Side would be joined together resulting in two longtime colleagues Nadler and Maloney running against each other.
Nadler currently represents the 10th District and Maloney represents the 12th. Both candidates have been in politics since the early 90s. Now, with the new map, Nadler and Maloney will compete over the 12th Congressional District.
Other candidates such as Sean Patrick Maloney, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, will also be running for a different district due to the new maps. He currently represents the 18th District but will run for the 17th.
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