New York's 10th congressional district
in New York, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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New York's 10th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives, formerly located from 2003 to 2013 in Brooklyn, New York City, currently represented by Democrat Jerrold Nadler. The district contains the southern portion of Morningside Heights, the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the west side of Midtown Manhattan, the west side of Lower Manhattan, including Greenwich Village and the Financial District, and parts of Brooklyn, most notably Borough Park.With a size of 14.25 mi², the district is currently the second-smallest congressional district in the country. Demographically, it includes neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn that are heavily Jewish.
From 2003-2013, the district was located entirely within Brooklyn, and was majority African-American. It included the neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Canarsie, East New York, and Ocean Hill, as well as parts of Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, and Williamsburg.