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WHERE’S ERIC? Hosting a breakfast with advertising industry leaders, meeting with interfaith leaders on Staten Island, meeting with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Steve Dettelbach, delivering remarks with Vice President Kamala Harris and joining the Bowling Green Association and the Peruvian American Coalition of New York to raise a flag in celebration of Peruvian Independence Day. By email: and, or on Twitter: and KATHY? Making economic development announcements in Syracuse and Clayton. Got tips, suggestions or thoughts? Let us know. Some Council members plan to fight back against the maps, with the lines set to be finalized in February. While Borelli is winning for now, the redistricting battle isn’t over. And by leaving Staten Island alone, the group has to do more fiddling with lines elsewhere, to the detriment of some Democrats - two of whom are being thrust into the same Brooklyn district in the area across the water from Staten Island. “We have nothing in common with any other part of the city, and given our small population, we already have a hard enough time getting attention from City Hall.”īorelli pulled this off despite having just three appointees on the 15-member commission, with the rest chosen by Mayor Eric Adams and Council Speaker Adrienne Adams. “The border between Staten Island and Brooklyn is nearly a mile and $20,” he said. “I will use whatever influence I have to make sure Staten Island doesn’t lose an ounce of power at City Hall,” Borelli said. But they opted against that, instead leaving the borough’s districts virtually unchanged in the plan that’s actively under discussion. Instead, parts of Brooklyn would have been added to a Staten Island district under one proposal that the redistricting commission considered. Staten Island’s population has been growing more slowly than the rest of the city, raising the possibility that it would no longer be home to three self-contained City Council districts. Democrats outnumber Republicans 46 to 5 on the New York City Council, but the GOP is playing an outsize role in drawing the district lines that will shape the body for the decade to come.Ĭouncil Minority Leader Joe Borelli wanted Staten Island’s three districts to remain intact amid the citywide carveup - and that’s exactly what he’s getting in a proposed set of maps, our Sally Goldenberg and Joe Anuta report.
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