With new, gerrymandered Congressional maps, Reps. Jeffries (a local) & Nadler (not) would represent Atlantic Yards site, replacing Rep. Clarke
Map excerpted from Gothamist Thanks to Democratic Party-controlled redistricting, Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park will have some new Democratic legislators representing it in Congress. (This assumes no successful legal challenge .) As shown in the map at right. Rep. Yvette Clarke--a Flatbush resident --would lose Atlantic Yards, as her 9th District boundary moves east, to the most part east of Underhill Avenue, and then east of Prospect Park. (Her current district lines , which extend to Fourth Avenue in part, and then to Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, are below left.) And now the Atlantic Yards/Pacific site would be split between Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Jerry Nadler. Jeffries, a Prospect Heights resident and former state Assemblymember, is quite familiar with the project, though it can hardly be a priority. Nadler's lived on the Upper West Side his entire adult life and likely knows little about the project. The Congressional impact on the project has been limit...