He is the first Latino president of the borough of Brooklyn and on Wednesday he visited, together with Councilor Alexa Avilés, the PS1 school in Sunset Park, to deliver gifts to more than 300 children, the majority Latino, and thus share the meaning of the day of the three wise men.
Antonio Reynoso said:
“It is something very important, especially for the families of the Caribbean countries like Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and being able to present that to them is something that makes me proud, but it also makes them proud and also educates them in what it is. his country”.
Antonio Reynoso, of Dominican origin, makes this visit a day after delivering the first State of Brooklyn Address in nearly 10 years, from the New York City College of Technology.
In 2022, it focused on improving the maternal health of Latina and Afro-descendant women in the county, since they are 9.4 times more likely to have pregnancy complications compared to white mothers.
He and his team also developed Brooklyn’s first comprehensive health plan that seeks equity in the system as well as decent and affordable housing for all residents.
For 2023, it proposes four key points:
“What arrives is the most important thing, we want to start with communities that are poor, African-American and Latino, like the community where I grew up, ensuring that we have affordable solar panels for housing where we can lower what they spend on electricity. We have another part, small businesses in a community called Brownsville, where they need a lot of help,” says Reynoso.
In addition to these two initiatives, he proposes creating permanent headquarters for non-profit organizations, as well as a reform in the City Charteror the document that governs the county government, so that the committees that comprise it have a better representation of the different communities of Brooklyn and thus obtain the resources, funds and services required at the local level.
And about the growing population of migrants, Reynoso commented:
“We want to ensure that the resources that are necessary for these families are available, that they have a jacket, a coat to wear when it’s cold. An education that is good for our children, that they have housing with dignity, to be able to look for work where they will be paid well and have benefits. It is the job that I have to do as a borough president.”
