CQ Risk Rating: Safe Democrat 
| GENERAL ELECTION: NOVEMBER 7, 2000 |
|
| Jerrold Nadler (D, L, WFM) | 150,273 | 81% |
| Marian S. Henry (R) | 27,057 | 15% |
| Dan Wentzel (GREEN) | 4,765 | 3% |
| Anthony A. LaBella (C) | 1,849 | 1% |
| Harry Kresky (INDC) | 1,025 | 1% |
| PRIMARY ELECTION: SEPTEMBER 12, 2000 |
|
| | Votes | Percentage | | Conservative |
| Anthony A. LaBella | Unopposed |
| | Democratic |
| Jerrold Nadler | Unopposed |
| | Green |
| Dan Wentzel | Unopposed |
| | Independence |
| Harry Kresky | Unopposed |
| | Liberal |
| Jerrold Nadler | Unopposed |
| | Republican |
| Marian S. Henry | Unopposed |
| | Working Families |
| Jerrold Nadler | Unopposed |
Source: Congressional Quarterly. To suggest updates and corrections: politics.feedback@cq.com
Major Industry | Population | Cities | People | Race | Median Household Income | Unusual Features
NEW YORK 8
:
West Side Manhattan; parts of southwest Brooklyn
Starting at the tip of Manhattan, the 8th covers Wall Street and moves
north along Manhattan's West Side past Chinatown, Greenwich Village and
Midtown to end up in Central Park. The 8th also crosses the Brooklyn Bridge
to take in Brooklyn's western waterfront and some of the borough's most
impoverished neighborhoods. The manufacturing industry that once sustained
Brooklyn has been neglected in a surge of white-collar financial growth. Now
officials are looking for ways to revitalize the decaying Brooklyn
waterfront.
Manhattan's heavily Democratic West Side has sent liberal
representatives to Congress since 1970. Redistricting has combined
Manhattan's low-income northwest, Midtown, Greenwich Village and financial
districts with Brooklyn's Hasidic Jewish communities and minority
neighborhoods in western and south Brooklyn and Coney Island.
The 8th's politically active communities - gay, Jewish, minority, art
and student - supported Clinton with at least 75 percent of the vote in 1992
and '96, and the district's liberal Democratic representative easily won
re-election to four terms. The only conservative voters in the 8th live in
Brooklyn's upper-middle-class Hasidic communities, like Borough Park, where
residents are sometimes willing to back Republican candidates who share
their socially conservative views.
Major Industry
Finance, manufacturing, small business
Population
581,453 (1990)
Cities
New York (pt.), 581,453 (1990)
People
100% urban; 15% age 65+ (ranks seventh of 31 in state; top third
nationally); 32% married couples, 13% married couples with children; 42%
college educated (ranks second of 31 in state; top third nationally); 79%
white collar (ranks second of 31 in state; top third nationally), 11% blue
collar (ranks 30 of 31 in state; bottom third nationally) (1990)
Race
Non-Hispanic: 74% white, 7% black, 6% Asian, 12% Hispanic origin (1990)
Median Household Income
$32,784 (ranks 16 of 31 in state; top third nationally) (1990)
Unusual Features
World Trade Center; Empire State Building; Coney Island, home to a
century-old amusement park; Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" set near
Coney Island.
Source: Congressional Quarterly (Updated April 1999)
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