It has been represented by Republican Steve Chan since 2025, defeating Iwen Chu.

District 17 is located in Southwestern Brooklyn, including some or all of the neighborhoods of Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Kensington, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, and Gravesend.

[4] As he had done in the past, Felder ran in 2020 on both the Democratic and Republican party lines.

Jumaane Williams, then a New York City Councilmember, did not actively campaign, and was listed on the ballot to allow the Working Families Party to remove him from consideration for the 2018 lieutenant gubernatorial election,[9] in accordance with complex New York election laws.

[10] In 2016, Felder ran on both the Democratic and Republican party lines.