The state has been busy redrawing the boundaries for Assembly and Senate districts, and a weird gerrymander will put most of Battery Park City — currently uh-Line Niou’s district, #65 — into a district with the north shore of Staten Island in Assembly District 61.

The Center for Urban Research and CUNY Graduate Center did these handy maps so you can click through yourself, or see the images here. (I added the arrow!)

I am no political analyst, but my guess would have been that this was an attempt to make the current Staten Island districts lean towards Democrat. But AD 61 is already represented by a Democrat — Charles Fall — so it doesn’t seem worth the effort. And it sure makes no sense from a representation point of view…

The new lines passed the Democrat-controlled legislature, but there’s bound to be litigation.

The Congressional Districts also got redrawn, and the proposal for the 10th — Jerry Nadler’s seat that now includes all of Tribeca, BPC and Fidi and goes from the UWS to Brooklyn — Zabar’s to Nathan’s as the phrase goes — is now still a crazy shape, but cuts out part of Tribeca around Broadway and Church, adding it to Carolyn Maloney’s district. See maps below or see the link here.