With Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams out of office and potentially mayor next year, voters will also be selecting his replacement while making their choice between the nails-are-not-manicured-they-are-cracked former traffic cop, tech capitalist Andrew Yang or recovering neoliberal Scott Stringer or somebody else. Among the dozen or so candidates that have already stepped up to the crowded plate to replace Adams at Borough Hall is City Council Member Antonio Reynoso, whose district contains vast slices of Bushwick, Ridgewood, Greenpoint, and Williamsburg. 

This week, Bklyner reported that the New York Working Families Party has put its weight behind Reynoso, with its state director and Insecure-enthusiast Sochie Nnaemeka announcing that “Antonio is a proven champion for Brooklyn’s working families.” It’s only the latest endorsement Reynoso has racked up in the world of progressive politics, Billy Richling observes at the local blog. Make the Road Action, the political arm of an immigration advocacy group that regularly challenges deportations in federal court, endorsed Reynoso last month. 

In a write-up of that move, Samar Khurshid at Gotham Gazette mused that Reynoso, like the very man whose seat he’s running to replace, “is also facing term limits.” Khurshid identifies the race’s frontrunners as Reynoso, one of his colleagues in city council, Robert Cornegy, as well as Assembly-member Jo Anne Simon. Another of Reynoso’s fellow councilmen, the chamber’s longest-serving member, Mathieu Eugene is in the race as well but Khurshid does not deduce ‘the Haitian Sensation‘ to be in the lead in the Brooklyn race so far. (The political blog, Kings County Politics, however warns: “Underestimate City Council Member Mathieu Eugene in the 2021 Brooklyn Borough President’s race at you[r] own peril.”)