Anyone Who Thought This Was a Fair District in Brooklyn is a Snake
Bay Ridge’s new NYC Council District was made to snake down a thin strip of Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst and Bath Beach and ending with the gated community of Sea Gate.
Only a moron or a sneaky politician would think this gerrymandered district was “fair.”
Who lives down this thin strip in the snake’s body that had to be included in our district?
Notice they removed 7th Avenue and Poly Place where all the cars are illegally parked and never get ticketed! In June, Gounardes, Brannan and Captain Tolson told us that street would be cleared of vehicles. Three months later, it’s exactly the same! That part of the distict is going to Staten Island. (See red arrow below)
That section would remove the Republicans that live on the Army Base. Those residents are not Staten Islanders. I’m sure Jumaane Williams doesn’t care either way.
Our community should have seen District Leaders including Christopher McCreight, Tori Kelly Burnhas and Mark Hanna speak out against gerrymandering (see the skinny streets connecting Bay Ridge to SeaGate?) Yet, all District Leaders are silent.
Republicans and Asians in Dyker Heights were removed from the district. They were replaced with predominately white people from the gated community of SeaGate.
The first change in the newly made district was made quietly this Summer. Bay Ridge was redistricted with Staten Island.
Plan 2 was made to put Bay Ridge with Sunset Park. People said, “Goodbye” to Justin Brannan because Alexa Aviles is the representative in Sunset Park. She doesn’t love lobbyists.
Plan 3 – Bay Ridge is linked by a small snake like strip of land to SeaGate, a gated community with their own security. This took a huge chunk from Ari Kagan’s district. Kagan’s been working and people have been noticing!
Fortunately, the redistricting committee had some decent people – 8 of them including Joshua Schnepp, who voted against these districts. There were 7 people who voted in favor of these maps. Anyone can see this is not acceptable!
Politico says the Mayor had someone (the article says Menashe Shapiro) tell people to vote against these district lines – THAT’S GOOD NEWS! (See article)
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Hugs,
marlene
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