The Boundary Commission has updated its proposals for how existing seats will be redrawn after a public consultation.
Seats in the lower house will increase from 150 to 210, and constituencies will be redrawn.
In at least 36 states, governors have a say in how Congressional districts will be redrawn.
Seven bus routes around Madison Square Garden, which carry about 70,000 New Yorkers daily, will be redrawn.
The remaining districts will be redrawn in abstract squiggles worthy of a Miro.
In November, the district will be redrawn in a way that further favors Democrats, which may scare away some Republicans.
Independent commissions redrew the lines in 2010, and most observers believe they did a good job (districts will be redrawn every ten years).
Those legislative districts, however, have neither passed a laugh test nor escaped a threatened veto from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and in all likelihood they will be redrawn.
The district's borders will be redrawn before next year's election, to reflect population shifts identified in the 2010 census, but Mr. Jeffries said he did not expect the district to change substantially.
