Queens residents care about redistricting. So much so that a public hearing held on the proposed changes to the borough’s City Council district that began Tuesday evening didn’t end until Wednesday’s earliest hours.
In all, nearly 100 people registered to give their testimony on the New York City Districting Commission’s preliminary map, which was held on Tuesday from Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image.
Commission members expected the testimony to take them until 1 a.m., on Wednesday, should everyone speak. In preparation, the commission told a number of registered testifiers earlier Tuesday that they would be given a chance to say their piece after 9:30 p.m., a half hour after the meeting was originally scheduled to end. The meeting wrapped up around 12:25 a.m.
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