New York City will soon embark on its own redistricting plan for the 51 City Council seats representing 8 million people across the Five Boroughs — and good government advocates hope gerrymandering won’t be a part of it.
On the heels of New York state approving a partisan redrawing of state legislative and Congressional lines earlier this month, Citizens Union is calling on Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council to avoid a similar fate later this year when the city’s independent Districting Commission re-examines Council district boundary lines.
