New York's 10th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives currently represented by Democrat Dan Goldman. The district contains all of Lower Manhattan, including Alphabet City, Chelsea, Meatpacking District, Flatiron District, East Village, West Village, and Wall Street, and the western Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Gowanus, Prospect Heights, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and Sunset Park. The district also contains parts of Borough Park and Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, and all of Prospect Park. In Upper New York Harbor, the district includes Governors Island, Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty, and parts of Ellis Island.
This congressional district has changed configurations and locations many times due to redistricting, initially starting out as an upstate constituency before gradually moving south. Beginning in the 1870s, it shifted into parts of New York City, where it has remained.
In the 20th century, the 10th district was a Brooklyn-based seat from 1913 until 1973, when that iteration of the district was redrawn and renumbered the , and the 10th was reassigned to a district in northern Queens and the east Bronx. The 1980 redistricting cycle restored the 10th district to Brooklyn, covering largely the same terrain as before. In 1990, much of the old 10th district was added to the new QueensâÂÂBrooklyn , while the new 10th then absorbed much of the old , including its congressman, Ed Towns.
From 2003 to 2013, this district was exclusively Brooklyn-based. During this time, it was majority-African American and 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. In the 2010âÂÂ12 redistricting cycle, the district was reconfigured to cover most of Manhattan's West Side, covering most of what had been the .
The 2010 map had a size of . New York's 10th district was the nation's second-smallest by area, after . Demographically, it also had the most (197,000 or 270,000) and highest percentage of Jews (27.5% or 37.6%) of any congressional district, largely because it included several heavily Jewish neighborhoods of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Before 2020, the district stretched from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Borough Park.
The 10th district is entirely in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Brooklyn neighborhoods in the district include:
Manhattan neighborhoods in the district include:
The following are historical results for the 10th district's congressional elections.