Riverdale may be united by a single representative in the state Senate if the New York State Legislative Task Force on Democratic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR) gets its way.

For the last decade through this year, Riverdale has been a small part of three Senate districts: the 31st is centered in Inwood and Washington Heights; the 33rd covers all of Kingsbridge and Kingsbridge Heights, as well as a good part of Norwood and University Heights; and the 34th spans from Eastchester and Mount Vernon to Throgs Neck in the Bronx.

Every decade after Census data are released, the state legislature redraws district lines.

The ones released last week by LATFOR — made up of one legislator from each party and one non-legislator appointed by the majority Republican party — reduces the number of state Senators representing Riverdale from three to one. 

The new map shows District 34, represented by Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeff Klein, losing Eastchester and parts of Yonkers, but gaining areas in the Bronx, including all of Riverdale, half of Kingsbridge and part of Van Cortlandt Village.

LATFOR proposes that District 31, currently represented by state Sen. Adriano Espaillat — which includes the western half of Riverdale and North Riverdale, as well as most of  Spuyten Duyvil — trade in all of its Bronx territory for parts of Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea in Manhattan. District 31 currently runs along the Hudson, from North Riverdale to West 59th Street in Manhattan. The district would still include all of Marble Hill, but would no longer represent any of the Bronx.

While Riverdale was reunited under these proposals, LATFOR cut Kingsbridge in half.

State Senate District 33, represented by state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, currently looks like a large block and  includes nearly the entire neighborhoods of Kingsbridge and Norwood. The proposed district looks like a piece in a very complicated jigsaw puzzle. While the district still includes part of Norwood, the connection between that neighborhood and the rest of the district is a single block at East 199th Street and Briggs Avenue.