Former Manhattan Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney is eyeing a comeback — if a new round of redistricting carves a House district that more closely resembles her old turf on the East Side.
“If they give me a district I can run in — it’s a go,” Maloney, 77, told The Post.
First elected in 1992, Maloney served in the House of Representatives for 30 years in a district that took in the length of the East Side.
But under redistricting in 2022, the redrawn 12th Congressional District paired her stomping grounds with Manhattan’s West Side, represented by Rep. Jerry Nadler, pitting the two veterans and one-time allies against each in a Democratic primary.
The more liberal Nadler trounced Maloney so handily in the primary that he even garnered more votes in East Side precincts — perhaps making her quest to rejoin the fray wishful thinking.
Still, New York’s highest court last month tossed out the state’s congressional map and ordered new ones to be drawn up ahead of the 2024 election by the Independent Redistricting Commission.
If the panel is deadlocked, the Democratic-run legislature will redraw the maps, potentially giving their candidates an edge in some hotly congressional general elections in the suburbs — but also possibly creating more internal party skirmishes.
“They shouldn’t have put the East Side and West Side together,” Maloney said.
Maloney currently serves as president of the New York State chapter of the National Organization of Women.
