Politics & Government

Anti-Gerrymandering Rally Today at City Hall, Hearing Thursday

The Fair Redistricting Caucus of Color will protest the new legislative maps outside City Hall today, and there's a hearing on the proposed maps tomorrow.

If you're not happy with the released by GOP lawmakers last week (which turned the district from a triangle to something ) then you should know that there's an anti-gerrymandering rally today.

It's in front of City Hall at 1 p.m. (Sorry about the late notice, we just got word).

Can't make it? You could also try to get into a state hearing on the new proposed lines. There's one tomorrow, Feb. 2, at 10:30 a.m. at 250 Broadway, Assembly Hearing Room.

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Besides gerrymandering Sen. Eric Adams out of his own district, the proposed District 20 map gives over about half of Adam’s territory to Sen. Velmanette Montgomery’s neighboring District 18, making up the population with a one-block-wide strip between Fourth and Fifth avenues all the way to Sunset Park, where a chunck of new territory is added.

Adams said he would move into the new district rather than run against Montgomery in the fall. 

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