New York's 9th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in New York City, represented by Yvette Clarke.
The district is located entirely within Brooklyn. It includes the neighborhoods of Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Kensington, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Prospect Park (designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux), Grand Army Plaza and the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, the worldwide headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community and the Brooklyn Children's Museum are located within this district, as well as, in the Prospect Heights neighborhood, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Central Library, or main branch, of the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Kurdish Library and Museum.
It fomerly included in the previous congress parts of southern Brooklyn and south central Queens. Before redistrictinng, The Queens Tribune found that the district increasingly swung Republican following the September 11 attacks in 2001, when many police and firefighters were lost from the Rockaways. Its representation in Congress was reliably Democratic for decades, and Chuck Schumer and Anthony Weiner received popular support from constituents for many years. Anthony D. Weiner was Congressman from 1999 until he resigned on June 21, 2011. Republican Bob Turner succeeded Weiner after winning the special election on September 13, 2011. After redistricting, Yvette Clarke now represents the district.
The district is majority African-American. Prior to 2013, the district consisted primarily of middle-class white neighborhoods, including large Jewish, Italian, Irish, and Russian populations.
The district gained national attention in 1984 when Rep. Geraldine Ferraro became the vice presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. Current U.S. Senator Charles Schumer represented the district prior to becoming a U.S. Senator.
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