Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Nadler is an American attorney and politician who serves as the U.S. Representative from New York's 10th congressional district serving since 1992. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
The district, numbered as the 17th District from 1992 to 1993 and as the 8th District from 1993 to 2013, includes the west side of Manhattan from the Upper West Side down to Battery Park, including the World Trade Center. It also includes the Manhattan neighborhoods of Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, and Greenwich Village, as well as parts of Brooklyn such as Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, and Bay Ridge. It includes many of New York City's most popular tourist attractions, including the Statue of Liberty, New York Stock Exchange, Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park.
quoted in The New York Times, March 6, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/us/politics/06hillary.html?pagewanted=1&hp
