Destiny of District Remains to Be Seen, Ackerman Says

U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-Bayside, said his district could include more than 700,000 additional residents in 2012 as part of a redistricting, but did not did speculate what this could mean for his seat.

Ackerman's district includes a wide swath of Queens neighborhoods, such as Douglaston, Bayside, Little Neck, Corona and parts of Flushing as well as several Long Island communities.

In 2012, New York stands to lose two seats in the House of Representatives to redistricting following the state's poor showing in population figures released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.

"My district will grow to 719,000 plus, as will all 27 districts in the state," said Ackerman, who was first elected to office in 1982. "The lines remain to be seen."

In a recent analysis on the redistricting, The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza wrote that one of the seats lost for the state could come out of the five boroughs.

He remains confident that Rep. Michael Grimm, R-Staten Island, is in the clear, but suggests that two seats held by Democrats will have to be combined into one district.

Cillizza wrote that the redistricting could affect Ackerman or Queens Reps. Carolyn Maloney, D-Astoria, and Joseph Crowley, D-Jackson Heights.