Maps of Assembly districts drawn by the legislative redistricting task force (LATFOR) have been sent to the relevant Assemblymember. We've reached out to the Bronx members and are waiting to hear back to get each one. Here's the first we've gotten, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz's 81st.
UPDATE: All the lines are out now on the LATFOR site, and you can check another post on Bronx Press Politics to see our breakdowns of the Senate.
UPDATE: All the lines are out now on the LATFOR site, and you can check another post on Bronx Press Politics to see our breakdowns of the Senate.
The
proposed lines add the rest of Van Cortlandt Village, the Jerome Park
Reservoir, Clinton HS, Bronx HS of Science, Harris Field and Lehman College, much
of Kingsbridge Heights, the four buildings from the Marble Hill Houses
that are in the Bronx, and returns the one election district
at the bottom of Riverdale (2400 and 2500 Johnson Ave) that was taken
away in 2002. Several election districts in Norwood were moved to the 80th Assembly District. The
population of the new district is 126,402, a -2.08 percent deviation
from the statewide average. The current district has 119,653.
Every single Bronx AD is within 31 people of one another.
Dinowitz said he absolutely loves this proposed district because it puts nearly all of Community Board 8 in his district. It also gives him Lehman College and Bronx High School of Science, both which he attended, as well as a junior high school that goes by a different name now. It also has a good portion of Kingsbridge Heights, which is the neighborhood he grew up in.
In terms of the overall Bronx Assembly districts, "they're very reasonably drawn," he said. There aren't many "zig zags" but instead you see a lot of straight lines that keep communities together.
"To the extent that you can not divide neighborhoods," LATFOR did a good job with the Bronx.
For your consideration, here is Dinowitz's district as it looks now, drawn up in 2002:
Every single Bronx AD is within 31 people of one another.
Dinowitz said he absolutely loves this proposed district because it puts nearly all of Community Board 8 in his district. It also gives him Lehman College and Bronx High School of Science, both which he attended, as well as a junior high school that goes by a different name now. It also has a good portion of Kingsbridge Heights, which is the neighborhood he grew up in.
In terms of the overall Bronx Assembly districts, "they're very reasonably drawn," he said. There aren't many "zig zags" but instead you see a lot of straight lines that keep communities together.
"To the extent that you can not divide neighborhoods," LATFOR did a good job with the Bronx.
For your consideration, here is Dinowitz's district as it looks now, drawn up in 2002:
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