New York's 8th Congressional District
New York's Eighth Congressional District for the United States House of Representatives in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The current Representative from the 8th district is Hakeem Jeffries.
The majority of the 8th district's residents are African-Americans. The district's configuration changed upon the decennial redistricting prior to the 2012 election. Traditionally, it had covered much of the west side of Manhattan and western coastal sections of Brooklyn. With the new district boundaries, the district encompasses African-American and Caribbean-American Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Canarsie, East New York and Ocean Hill, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Canarsie, East Flatbush, along with European-American Howard Beach and mixed Coney Island.
Read more about New York's 8th Congressional District: Voting, 2012 Election, Components: Past and Present, Recent Election Results
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