D.C. is a New York town: The president, next speaker and Senate majority leader grew up within 11 miles of each other—what it means for the Big Apple

On the eve of the midterm election, Gov. Kathy Hochul told a Brooklyn crowd how she planned to use New York’s new clout.

“I cannot wait when I call up Hakeem Jeffries and say, ‘Mr. Speaker, I kind of need a few more billions of dollars for New York,’” she said at a rally in Williamsburg, according to THE CITY. “Then I call Chuck Schumer: ‘Mr. Majority Leader, I need a few more billions of dollars for New York State.’ Get used to it, America. Because we’re in charge.”

Less than 24 hours later, Democrats won both chambers of Congress, and if Jeffries and Schumer win their leadership votes come January, two Brooklynites will lead Congress opposite a Queens-born president. For the first time in U.S. history, sons of New York are poised to run both chambers of Congress and the White House.

Hochul, again, come Tuesday night: “Can you imagine New York state having both leaders of both bodies in Congress? Everybody’s going to want to move to New York because we’re the political club of the nation,” per Crain’s reporter Jack Grieve. “Imagine a world where I actually have a Congress, a House and a Senate, that are not fighting me, but working as partners to deliver even more for New York.”

The three men grew up within about 11 miles of one another: President Donald Trump in Jamaica Estates, Queens, and Schumer and Jeffries just a few miles apart in Brooklyn, in Midwood and Crown Heights.

The last time the House and Senate were led by people from the same state was when Texans Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson held the top jobs, respectively, an overlap that ended in 1961.........

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