According to the trends of the official results, Antonio Reynoso will become the first Latino Brooklyn president in history. Preliminary figures showed Reynoso ahead of his Republican rival, Manachem Raitport, early on.
“Very happy, very proud. I hope that Dominicans and Latinos are celebrating with me for the work that has been done and having the first Latino president of Brooklyn, a Dominican,” explains Reynoso.
Reynoso currently serves as a councilman for District 34, which includes Bushwick and Williamsburg, in Brooklyn.
“I was born and raised in Williamsburg, I just went to college. Outside of that, I have lived in the same three blocks. And this county is mine, it raised me, it gave me everything and now I want to give it back,” he details the virtual president of the borough of Brooklyn.
Reynoso knows that Latinos are not the majority in the county and barely represent 19% of the population: “It is a pride, we know that the county is represented more by African Americans not by Latinos.”
One of his great challenges, explains Reynoso, will be to avoid more displacement of Latinos caused by gentrification processes: “As a son of a mother who suffered and worked very hard to secure our home.”
But on this election day, elections were also held in the Council: Jennifer Gutierrez She will fill the place of Reynoso and will become the first Colombian councilor in the history of the city.
In Sunset Park the Puerto Rican, Alexa Avilés, will replace Carlos Menchaca as councilor: “The issue of affordable homes, we have a crisis in New York and here also in the neighborhood and our community has been displaced. That will continue, we have to change policies,” says Avilés.
Brad Lander He also celebrated his virtual victory as comptroller of the city together with Reynoso and Jumaane Williams, who would be achieving re-election as ombudsman.
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