Sol's 50-state Redistricting Library

[ProgressiveModerate]

Nice job of NY! Some thoughts:

Imo, having 4 take in some of Queens to become a black functioning district isn't worth it IMO. In this case it isn't truly adding another new black seat, rather just reconfiguring the others; 6 is now an awkward combination of 2 distinct pockets of black voters in Queens and Brooklyn. Also just having a district nested within Hempstead is natural and nice.

I do see what you mean by there's nowhere really good to put Staten Island with since you try to create a new Asian and Jewish seat in South Brooklyn.

I like how you consolidated all the hyper-religious Jewish pockets into NY-17 and the seat is honestly bluer than I would expect.

I like the NY-23 seat based around a lot of these smaller college towns too.

Overal;l, good job.

[ProgressiveModerate]

Thanks for the kind words!

Imo, having 4 take in some of Queens to become a black functioning district isn't worth it IMO. In this case it isn't truly adding another new black seat, rather just reconfiguring the others; 6 is now an awkward combination of 2 distinct pockets of black voters in Queens and Brooklyn. Also just having a district nested within Hempstead is natural and nice.

I get that; it feels like most of the crossings between NYC and Long Island suck and are bad. Do you prefer the current configuration?

Yeah, NY-03 crossing into Bayside and Whitestone is preferable imo. Northeast Queens is honestly retry disconnected from the rest of the city and more like LI; culturally disconnected from NYC, less dense, no subway lines, ect, ect.

Southeast Queens on the other hand feels a bit more like the rest of the city; subway lines actually run decently far into southeast Queens; E train was almost extended to the Nassau County border at one point. And ofc just keeping that black pocket of southeast Queens whole to be its own black functioning district is preferable.