Squadron to lose WTC

DNAInfo reports that the World Trade Center site, currently in State Senator Daniel Squadron’s district, will be redrawn into a different district. 

Proposed State Senate District 26

Squadron's 25th district currently stretches across Lower Manhattan, from Canal Street to Battery Park, and through parts of southern Brooklyn. The redistricting proposal would change it to the 26th district, and will slice the western edge off of TriBeCa and the Financial District, separating the World Trade Center and Battery Park City from the rest of Lower Manhattan and cutting Battery Park in half.

"No one has any idea what they were thinking," Squadron, who has played a key role in many World Trade Center developments. told DNAInfo. "Lower Manhattan is a single community. It shouldn’t be split up."

The future Freedom Towers site is presumably coveted by politicians, giving them a word in its redevelopment and a prominent seat in expected highly publicized dedication ceremonies to come. Also, it doesn't hurt to have the future tenants as constituents and prospective campaign donors. President Obama, as a State Senator, reportedly had his district redrawn to include Chicago's affluent gold coast, in a move credited for his accent to the Senate.

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