New York State is Drawing New Assembly Districts, Brooklyn Will Have One Hearing To Express Your Opinion
We have new Assembly district lines that went into effect as of this year, and in two years, they will change again. There will be just ONE hearing scheduled in Brooklyn, and it will be February 15th at 4:00pm at Medgar Evers College. Don’t miss your chance to have your voice heard.
See below for links, information and resources you can use in having your voice heard for the upcoming districting lines.
New York State Independent Redistricting Commission (nyirc.gov) – REGISTER HERE for a fast and easy way to send in comments by email. After logging in, go to PARTICIPATE section and click on Brooklyn, (Medgar Evans College has parking issues, tends to be crowded and you can send in comments just as well by email.)
New York State Independent Redistricting Commission (nyirc.gov) – Proposed Assembly Districts – To use – Magnify Map and then left click and drag to see CH & EF
Judge: NY Assembly maps to be redrawn by dysfunctional redistricting commission – City & State New York (cityandstateny.com) – News Article On Assembly Districts
Kings and Richmond Counties Public Meeting with the Independent Redistricting Commission – YouTube – go to 2:04 min 30 sec mark for relevant comments from a Rabbi David Neiderman, Exec Director from United Jewish Agencies from North Brooklyn and Williamsburg who has relevant comments on how Jews can be a “community of interest” in part because of their Yiddish speaking language, religious customs, etc. – (left click and hold mouse over youtube video to skip through video for other Jewish commenters and different commenters)
Kings_Richmond_Redacted.pdf (nyirc.gov) – See Brooklyn Written Archived Comments – Written comments – (if you can PDF and then do an OCR or Word recognition search, you can quickly search for selected comments or words – e.g. “Crown Heights”)
“Unity” Redistricting Maps – Center for Law and Social Justice (clsj.org) – Center for Law and Social Justice “CLSJ” proposals and detailed info on redistricting from other interest groups (non-Jewish interest groups) that may not be in line with Jewish voting interests, but is nevertheless useful as a learning tool of how the Jewish community will be effected.
Anonymous
CH is similar to what Rabbi David Neiderman said of Williamsburg in the article.
CH is a “community of interest” that should not be splintered- so the 43rd should expand eastward to Remsen VIllage, have a western boundary at New York Ave, South down to Church and North to Eastern Pkwy. These boundaries would still produce a Black majority voting bloc, so why not be fair and equitable to all ?
Unknown Lazy Man
If you can’t attend the hearing, consider submitting registering and submitting a comment online.
https://www.nyirc.gov/participate
Yossel
CH is similar to what Rabbi David Neiderman said of Williamsburg in the article.
CH is a “community of interest” that should not be splintered- so the 43rd should expand eastward to Remsen VIllage, have a western boundary at New York Ave, South down to Church and North to Eastern Pkwy. These boundaries would still produce a Black majority voting bloc, so why not be fair and equitable to all
Legal Basis to Challenge Splintering CH into 3 City Council Districts - Jay
Endnote 13 -The 2014 constitutional amendments also forbid racial gerrymandering, in a provision that … prohibits an invidious intent or motive, requiring that district lines … shall they result in, the denial or abridgement of” the voting rights of racial or minority language groups (NY Const, art III, § 4 [c] [1]).
Harkenrider v. Hochul, 38 N.Y.3d 494,197 N.E.3d 437, 176 N.Y.S.3d 157(NY2022)