Brooklyn’s new Borough President, Antonio Reynoso, has released a new “transition report” outlining his agenda and priorities for his young beepage, a boroughwide elected post with limited powers, but a large platform and bully pulpit.
The transition report outlines big plans for the best borough: he wants to enact a “comprehensive plan” for Brooklyn, delineating the amount of housing that should be built to alleviate a crushing housing shortage, where to build it, and how to do it equitably. He hopes to make Brooklyn the safest place for a woman of color to have a baby, and he wants to reform the borough’s community boards to encourage greater and more equitable civic participation. He is a self-described policy nerd, but also hopes to throw the best parties and to be remembered by generations of Brooklynites as a “fun guy.”
