In Manhattan, Largely Blue, One Bright Spot and a Tie for Romney

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Its black glass exterior soars high above Fifth Avenue, and its gold-tipped revolving doors have spun the likes of Bruce Willis and Anne Hathaway into its waterfall-splashed atrium.

But on Election Day, Trump Tower earned a different sort of distinction: a tiny island of Romneyville amid Manhattan's deep, blue-state sea.

The tower is in the wealthy precinct where Donald J. Trump, the building's developer and its most recognizable resident, votes. And the electoral district was one of only two in Manhattan where Mitt Romney earned at least 50 percent of the in-person vote.

But even the presence of Mr. Trump, a ferocious opponent of President Obama who later posted on Twitter that the election was "a total sham and a travesty," could not carry the precinct for his chosen candidate. Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama tied, with 110 votes apiece.

Mr. Romney won a single Manhattan precinct outright, a stretch of Park Avenue near the Waldorf-Astoria, where six voters showed up and four chose the Republican. But he suffered a resounding defeat in New York, a rare outbreak of consensus in a city famous for fevered disagreement: in 91 of the city's 5,286 precincts, Mr. Obama received 100 percent of the vote.

Still, even this most Democratic of cities has its outliers and intrigues. A precinct-by-precinct examination of the ways New Yorkers voted this month revealed some anomalous, and often telling, outcroppings, including pockets of red-state America tucked inside fields of blue.

Take a four-square-block slice of Gravesend, Brooklyn, a warren of high-priced residences dotted with Sephardic temples and yeshivas that happens to be the deepest single bloc of Republican support in all five boroughs. On Election Day, 97 percent of the voters there supported Mr. Romney, who beat Mr. Obama 133 votes to 3. Mr. Romney won unanimously in six other precincts, but altogether, 10 people voted in those precincts.

(These tallies do not include absentee-ballot results, which were not available at the time The New York Times analyzed the vote results.)

On Monday in Gravesend, Jewish men in black hats, clutching prayer books, strolled past manicured lawns and driveways filled with Porsches and Mercedes-Benzes. A Maserati was parked across the street from a rabbinical school on Avenue S. It is a district of families and business owners, residents said, where religious values are often as deeply felt as economic ones.

"There is a perception that Obama is not the best friend of Israel," said Ike Hanon, 22, a rabbinical student who lives on East Ninth Street, as he left afternoon prayers. "He's been catering more to the Muslim countries."

But his neighbors, Mr. Hanon added, many of whom are entrepreneurs and first- or second-generation immigrants, were equally turned off by what he called the president's "philosophy of handouts and taking money from the rich."

"We're more of an upstart type of people," Mr. Hanon said. "We're go-getters. We want someone who really rewards hard work."

Mr. Romney enjoyed strong support from a range of neighborhoods with large populations of Orthodox Jews, regardless of income level.

Mr. Romney won more than 90 percent of the votes in many precincts in the Borough Park and Sheepshead Bay neighborhoods in Brooklyn and in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Some Romney supporters from those areas were surprised to learn their candidate had performed so well.

"I thought I was alone, a voice in the wilderness," James Gibbons, a retired technical writer, said as he walked into a kosher supermarket on Avenue S in Brooklyn. He said the support for Mr. Romney was "terrific, but I wish it was spread out more."

Other Romney strongholds were on the city's perimeter: Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn; Belle Harbor in the Rockaways; and Howard Beach, Queens. Mr. Romney narrowly missed a victory on Staten Island, traditionally the city's most conservative borough, where Mr. Obama won with 50.2 percent of the vote.

Staten Island may be a swing borough, but Middle Village, Queens, is a swing neighborhood and politically centrist. In 17 precincts in the mostly white, working-class neighborhood, Mr. Obama won by fewer than four percentage points.

Ford Fessenden, Christopher Maag and Griff Palmer contributed reporting.


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