New Yorkers residing in downtown Brooklyn and the west side of Manhattan could gain clout when the 51 City Council districts are redrawn this year — thanks to huge population increases in their nei…
The City Council is required to reapportion its districts every 10 years based on the changes in inhabitants, and the 15-member commission tasked with the endeavor could release its preliminary maps on Friday.
Districts are currently meant to average about 162,000 residents each. But to accommodate the population growth, the newly re-drawn districts are supposed to each contain about 173,000 inhabitants, or within five percentage point range of that number.said Councilwoman Julie Menin That means there would be an overflow of about 35,000 residents in the 33 — or around 20 percent of the current population — who would have to be split into at least two council seats.
That’s an overflow of 29,870 residents from the average district population sought by the commission, whose members are appointed by the mayor and Council. Meanwhile Washington Heights/Inwood is one of the few areas of the city that saw its population decline, based on updated census data. The population in District 10 taking in heavily Latino Washington Heights/Inwood is 158,511 — considerably lower than required.
City demographers attributed part of the population decline in northern Manhattan to newcomers with smaller families replacing larger ones.Similarly, District 40 in central and southern Brooklyn — currently represented by Councilwoman Rita Joseph — has only 155,155 residents following the loss of population over the last decade and will have to take in thousands of new inhabitants from surrounding areas.
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