Park Slope And Staten Island Congressional District Nixed In New Map

BROOKLYN, NY — Park Slopers will likely not vote alongside Staten Islanders in congressional elections after all under newly redrawn New York congressional district maps.

The draft map, drawn by court-appointed special master Jonathan Cervas and released online Monday, marks the latest — and likely last — twist in a months-long legal dispute over New York's Democrat-drawn congressional maps, which were declared unconstitutional by a judge in April.

The now-scrapped maps replaced conservative swaths of southern Brooklyn with liberal Park Slope in Staten Island's 11th District, putting New York's sole Republican congressional seat, held by U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, into question (briefly at the hands of former mayor Bill de Blasio).

Cervas' redrawn maps, though, removed Park Slope from District 11, instead pairing the neighborhood with Lower Manhattan, and swaths of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Kensington and Borough Park in a newly reimagined District 10 (a seat long-held by Jerry Nadler).

The redrawn District 11 covers Staten Island, along with Bay Ridge, Red Hook and Sunset Park.

It's not immediately apparent who will run to represent the proposed Manhattan-slash-Brooklyn 10th District in this year's Democratic primary.

Nadler reportedly would choose to run in the new Upper West-slash-East Side District 12, facing off against incumbent Carolyn Maloney.

State Senator Brad Hoylman, who's represented Lower Manhattan in the senate for years, though expressed interest in the proposed 10th District Monday.

Cervas' congressional maps are drafts, but will be finalized by the end of the week, along with as-yet-released state Senate districts, which were also scrapped earlier this year leaving the primaries in chaos.

New Yorkers will cast a vote in Congressional and state senate primaries on Aug. 23 — leaving enough time for new maps to be drawn — but the state Assembly race (for which the Democrat-redrawn maps were not thrown out) and other races, including that for governor, will remain on the original June 28 date.

A bipartisan lawsuit filed over the weekend urges judges to throw out the state's Assembly maps and consolidate all primaries to one day in August or September.

Patch reporters Matt Troutman, Gus Saltonstall and Nick Garber contributed to this report.

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