Membership of the New York City Council

The list of New York City Council members below is current as of the 2006-2010 term. Eight new members joined the city council in the 2005 election. For notable past members of the Council, see Category:New York City Council members.

Membership

District	Member	First elected	Party
1	Margaret Chin	2009	Dem	Manhattan; Lower Manhattan (SoHo, NoHo, TriBeCa, Washington Square area, South Village, Battery Park City, Wall Street area, South Street Seaport area, City Hall area, Little Italy, Chinatown, Lower East Side)
2	Rosie Mendez	2005	Dem	Manhattan; Lower East Side (Lower East Side, East Village, Gramercy Park, Rosehill, Kips Bay; southern part of Murry Hill)
3	Christine Quinn	1999	Dem	Manhattan; (West Village, SoHo, NoHo, Flatiron, )Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen/Clinton, Murray Hill (portions) Christine Quinn is the City Council Speaker
4	Daniel Garodnick	2005	Dem	Manhattan; East Side (Upper East Side, Central Park South, Grand Central, Tudor City, Waterside, Peter Cooper Village, Carnegie Hill, Stuyvesant Town, United Nations; part of Yorkville, Turtle Bay)
5	Jessica Lappin	2005	Dem	Manhattan; Upper East Side (Beekman, Sutton Place, Upper East Side, Yorkville, Roosevelt Island; part of Turtle Bay, Carnegie Hill)
6	Gale Brewer	2001	Dem	Manhattan; Upper West Side (West Side 55th to 96th Streets)
7	Robert Jackson	2001	Dem	Manhattan; (West Harlem; parts of Washington Heights, parts of Inwood, Central Harlem and Morningside Heights)
8	Melissa Mark-Viverito	2005	Dem	Manhattan; Spanish Harlem, El Barrio, East Harlem, Manhattan Valley, Bronx, Mott Haven
9	Inez Dickens	2005	Dem	Manhattan; Harlem, Central Harlem; parts of Morningside Heights, Upper West Side, East Harlem)
10	Ydanis Rodríguez	2009	Dem	Manhattan; (Parts of Washington Heights, parts of Inwood)
11	G. Oliver Koppell	2001	Dem	Riverdale
12	Larry Seabrook	2001	Dem	Williamsbridge
13	James Vacca	2005	Dem	Throggs Neck
14	Fernando Cabrera	2009	Dem	Tremont
15	Joel Rivera	2001	Dem	West Farms
16	Helen Foster	2001	Dem	Highbridge
17	Maria del Carmen Arroyo	2005	Dem	Mott Haven
18	Annabel Palma	2003	Dem	Castle Hill
19	Dan Halloran	2009	Rep	Queens; Bayside, College Point, Auburndale, Beechhurst, Whitestone, Bay Terrace, Flushing, Douglaston, Little Neck
20	Peter Koo	2009	Rep	Queens; Flushing, Queensboro Hill, Mitchell Gardens, Kissena Park, Harding Heights, Auburndale, Whitestone
21	Julissa Ferreras	2009	Dem	Queens; Elmhurst Corona, East Elmhurst and Jackson Heights.
22	Peter Vallone, Jr.	2001	Dem	Queens; Astoria
23	Mark Weprin	2009	Dem	Queens; Hollis Hills, Queens Village, Little Neck, Douglaston, Bayside, Bellerose, Floral Park, Glen Oaks, Hollis, Hollis Park Gardens, Holliswood, Fresh Meadows, Oakland Gardens
24	James Gennaro	2001	Dem	Queens; Briarwood, Fresh Meadows, Hillcrest, Hillcrest Estates, Jamaica Estates, Jamaica Hills, Kew Gardens Hills, Utopia Estates, and parts of Forest Hills, Flushing, Jamaica and Rego Park
25	Daniel Dromm	2009	Dem	Queens; Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, LeFrak City, Corona, Rego Park, and Woodside
26	James Van Bramer	2009	Dem	Queens; Woodside, Sunnyside, Long Island City, Astoria, and Maspeth
27	Leroy Comrie	2001	Dem	Queens; St. Albans, Hollis, Cambria Heights, Jamaica, Baisley Park, Addisleigh Park; parts of Queens Village, Rosedale, Springfield Gardens
28	Ruben Wills	2010	Dem	Queens
29	Karen Koslowitz	1991/2009	Dem	Queens
30	Elizabeth Crowley	2008	Dem	Queens
31	James Sanders, Jr.	2001	Dem	Queens
32	Eric Ulrich	2009	Rep	Queens
33	Stephen Levin	2009	Dem	Brooklyn
34	Diana Reyna	2001	Dem	Brooklyn
35	Letitia James	2003	Dem	Brooklyn
36	Albert Vann	2001	Dem	Brooklyn
37	Erik Martin Dilan	2001	Dem	Brooklyn
38	Sara M. Gonzalez	2002	Dem	Brooklyn
39	Brad Lander	2009	Dem	Brooklyn
40	Mathieu Eugene	2007	Dem	Brooklyn
41	Darlene Mealy	2005	Dem	Brooklyn
42	Charles Barron	2001	Dem	Brooklyn
43	Vincent J. Gentile	2003	Dem	Brooklyn
44	David G. Greenfield	2010	Dem	Brooklyn
45	Jumaane Williams	2009	Dem	Brooklyn
46	Lewis Fidler	2001	Dem	Brooklyn
47	Domenic M. Recchia, Jr.	2001	Dem	Brooklyn
48	Michael Chaim Nelson	1999	Dem	Brooklyn
49	Deborah Rose	2009	Dem	Staten Island
50	James Oddo	1999	Rep	Staten Island: Arrochar, Bulls Head, Concord, Dongan Hills, Emerson Hill, Fort Wadsworth, Grant City, Graniteville, Grasmere, Island of Meadows, Midland Beach, New Dorp, Prall's Island, Richmondtown, South Beach, Todt Hill, Travis, Westerleigh, Willowbrook; parts of Brooklyn in: Dyker Heights, Bath Beach and Bensonhurst
51	Vincent Ignizio	2007	Rep	Staten Island: Arden Heights, Annadale, Bay Terrace, Tottenville, Oakwood, Great Kills, Richmondtown, Charleston, Rossville, New Springville, Eltingville, Woodrow, Richmond Valley, Huguenot, Prince's Bay, and Pleasant Plains

Council leadership

Position	Name	Party	Borough	District
Speaker	Christine Quinn	Democratic	Manhattan	3
Majority Leader	Joel Rivera	Democratic	Bronx	15
Minority Leader	James Oddo	Republican	Staten Island	50

City Council composition by party

Affiliation		Members
Template:American politics/party colours/Democratic|	Democratic	46
Template:American politics/party colours/Republican|	Republican	5
Total		51

Members by Borough

• 16 Brooklyn
• 14 Queens
• 10 Manhattan
• 8 Bronx
• 3 Staten Island

Milestones

• First female member: Genevieve Earle
• First openly-lesbian member: Caroline Glick
• First openly-gay male members: Thomas Duane and Antonio Pagán (both elected 1991)
• First female speaker: Christine Quinn
• First Puerto Rican-American female member: Nydia Velázquez
• First African-American female member: Mary Pinkett
• First African-American male member: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.