Tell the Justices: Protect Congressional District NY-7!

ACTION ALERT! Comments due today! Here’s the new map from Special Master Cervas, with Gowanus cut off from Red Hook even though we share a Superfund waterway and communities of interest. These communities should be kept together in order to be properly represented. Please submit a comment to [email protected] and [email protected] TODAY using this handy one-click!

Dear Justice McAllister and Special Master Cervas,

I am a resident of Congressional District NY-7. While the proposed map does keep the Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, and Gowanus area together, it excludes Red Hook which should also be included as we share a navigable superfund site (the Gowanus Canal), schools, libraries, a post office, recreational facilities, a community board, etc. Many residents in the adjoining neighborhoods frequently shop, dine, and attend performances in Red Hook, and vice versa. NY-7’s representative has chosen Red Hook as her home.

NY-7 is a Latino plurality VRA district and much of the district will lose this vital representation as the proposed maps cut the current  NY-7 in half while unnecessarily creating a new and unrepresented NY-10.  NY-7 should be drawn to include Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, along with Sunset Park (which shares communities of interest with other NY-7 neighborhoods of Bushwick and the Manhattan Chinatown) which shares a school district (15). Gowanus and its neighbors share communities of interest with the other NY-7 neighborhoods.These neighborhoods and their communities of interest should stay unified in the NY7 Congressional district.

I would like to BCC myself

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