[Wording of the quotes is from the other thread, but the general sense seems to still be under discussion over here.]
New York overall is heavily Democratic, yes. The particular areas these representatives are from, to the best of my knowledge, are heavily Republican. The recent redistricting, for instance, landed my immediate (quite R, though mostly polite to D’s) area into a district designed to be very much safe R, though we used to be in a district that while generally definitely R held at least the hope of swinging D and had elected a D not all that many years back.
I hold a bit of hope, as some of them would like those committee seats for themselves, and may have been expecting them. But it’s not a large bit.