Antonio Reynoso

Reynoso was born in Brooklyn and raised in the Los Sures section of Williamsburg to immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic. He graduated from Le Moyne College with a bachelor's degree in political science. one of his assignments was to organize childcare providers to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union. In 2009, he became chief of staff to Diana Reyna, the member of the New York City Council for District 34. ==New York City Council==

With Reyna prevented from running for reelection in 2013 due to term limits, Reynoso ran to succeed her The district included Bushwick, Ridgewood, and Williamsburg. During both his terms, Reynoso served as chair of the City Council's Committee on Sanitation & Solid Waste Management. He also co-chaired the council's Progressive Caucus. == Brooklyn Borough President ==

In July 2021, Reynoso won the Democratic Party's nomination for borough president of Brooklyn (formally known as Kings County). He defeated 13 other candidates in the Democratic primary. In the final round (Round 11) of the ranked-choice voting election, he defeated Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon, 54.9% to 45.1%. ==Political positions==

Ideologically, Reynoso is a progressive. At age 22, before his election to the City Council, he co-founded New Kings Democrats, a progressive reform-oriented grouping of the Brooklyn Democratic Party; the faction has struggled for control of the borough's party organization, clashing with bosses Vito Lopez and Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn. Housing and land use In 2019, as a city councilmember, Reynoso proposed a plan to create new historic districts to limit development in Bushwick, preserve manufacturing zoning, and allow no more than 2,000 new housing units, all at below-market rates (in contrast to a plan by Mayor Bill de Blasio to allow 5,613 new units of housing, including 1,873 units permanently earmarked for below-market-rate). In November 2021, upon winning election as borough president, Reynoso criticized past mayors for what he called overdevelopment, and that he wanted to "empower community boards to dictate what their communities look like in 10 years." and proposed plans to upzone Brooklyn to permit more housing. He also criticized NIMBYism and efforts to block housing construction based on notions of "neighborhood character." As a city councilmember and as Brooklyn BP, Reynoso has supported initiatives to protect the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists, He supports the end of parking minimums and has criticized illegal parking, such as double parking and parking on sidewalks, parks, and bike lanes. In 2024, after a series of pedestrian deaths caused by turning cars at intersections, Reynoso and other Brooklyn elected officials called for universal daylighting. The bill, passed in response to NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk, was enacted in 2017 and took effect in 2018. == Election history ==

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