New York City's 4th City Council district is one of 51 districts in the New York City Council. It has been represented by Democrat Virginia Maloney since 2026, succeeding fellow Democrat and former Majority Leader Keith Powers.
District 4 covers a large swath of Manhattan's Upper East Side, also stretching south to include some or all of Midtown, Times Square, Stuyvesant TownâÂÂPeter Cooper Village, Turtle Bay, Murray Hill, and Koreatown. The UN Headquarters, Rockefeller Center, and many other central Manhattan landmarks are located in the district.
The district overlaps with Manhattan Community Boards 5, 6, and 8, and is contained entirely within New York's 12th congressional district. It also overlaps with the 28th and 59th districts of the New York State Senate, and with the 73rd, 74th, and 75th districts of the New York State Assembly.
The 2025 New York City Council elections will be held on November 4, 2025, with primary elections occurring on June 24, 2025.
Due to redistricting and the 2020 changes to the New York City Charter, councilmembers elected during the 2021 and 2023 City Council elections will serve two-year terms, with full four-year terms resuming after the 2025 New York City Council elections.
In 2019, voters in New York City approved Ballot Question 1, which implemented ranked-choice voting in all local elections. Under the new system, voters have the option to rank up to five candidates for every local office. Voters whose first-choice candidates fare poorly will have their votes redistributed to other candidates in their ranking until one candidate surpasses the 50 percent threshold. If one candidate surpasses 50 percent in first-choice votes, then ranked-choice tabulations will not occur.