New York City Council - Composition

Composition

Partisan makeup
Affiliation Members
Democratic 46
Republican 4
Working Families 1
Total 51
Members
Borough
 Population
in 2000		 Total
 D
 R
 WF
Brooklyn 2,465,326 16 15 0 1
Queens 2,229,379 14 12 2 0
Manhattan 1,537,195 10 10 0 0
Bronx !the Bronx 1,332,650 8 8 0 0
Staten Island 443,728 3 1 2 0
Total 8,008,278 51 46 4 1
Council leaders
Position Name Party Borough District
Speaker Christine Quinn Democratic Manhattan 3rd
Majority Leader Joel Rivera Democratic Bronx 15th
Minority Leader James Oddo Republican Staten Island 50th

Read more about this topic:  New York City Council

Famous quotes containing the word composition:

    “There was not a grain of poetry in the whole composition of Lord Fawn, and poetry was what her very soul craved;Mpoetry, together with houses, champagne, jewels, and admiration.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    “I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Give a scientist a problem and he will probably provide a solution; historians and sociologists, by contrast, can offer only opinions. Ask a dozen chemists the composition of an organic compound such as methane, and within a short time all twelve will have come up with the same solution of CH4. Ask, however, a dozen economists or sociologists to provide policies to reduce unemployment or the level of crime and twelve widely differing opinions are likely to be offered.”
    —Derek Gjertsen, British scientist, author. Science and Philosophy: Past and Present, ch. 3, Penguin (1989)