New York's 17th State Senate district is one of 63 districts in the New York State Senate. It has been represented by Republican Steve Chan since 2025, defeating Iwen Chu.
District 17 is located in Southwestern Brooklyn, including some or all of the neighborhoods of Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Kensington, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, and Gravesend.
The district overlaps with New York's 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th congressional districts, and with the 41st, 42nd, 44th, 45th, 47th, 48th, 49th, and 51st districts of the New York State Assembly.
As he had done in the past, Felder ran in 2020 on both the Democratic and Republican party lines.
Jumaane Williams, then a New York City Councilmember, did not actively campaign, and was listed on the ballot to allow the Working Families Party to remove him from consideration for the 2018 lieutenant gubernatorial election, in accordance with complex New York election laws.
In 2016, Felder ran on both the Democratic and Republican party lines.