See How Park Slope’s Assembly Districts Change In New Maps

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Park Slopers already confused by a troubled redistricting process should brace themselves: yet another batch of redrawn maps are out.

New state Assembly maps were released Thursday by New York's Independent Redistricting Commission, and they propose changes for swaths of Park Slope.

The redrawn map greatly expands District 44, currently represented by Assembly Member Robert Carroll, to cover the bulk of Park Slope.

Under the draft map, District 52 — currently held by Jo Anne Simon — would shift from covering all of Park Slope west of Sixth Avenue to just the neighborhood’s northernmost tip, a triangle of territory bounded by Flatbush Avenue, Fourth Avenue and Butler Street.

Representatives for Carroll and Simon didn’t return a Patch reporter’s request for comment as of publication.

The Assembly drafts likely will be the last changes Park Slopers, and New Yorkers, after the state’s thwarted redistricting process.

Unlike plans for the State Senate and U.S. Congress, the Assembly maps drawn earlier this year by Democratic state lawmakers had been allowed to stand for the 2022 elections instead of being redrawn by a court-appointed special master.

But in subsequent legal challenges, state judges ruled that the Assembly maps were invalid, too, and would need to be revised by early 2023.

The commission's new plan was released ahead of its court-mandated Dec. 2 deadline.

Patch writer Nick Garber contributed to this report.