Skip to content
Bushwick Daily
Advertisement
Met FreshMet Fresh

NewsWilliamsburg

Reynoso made Puerto Rico the wedge in his run for Congress. He is not Puerto Rican, and that is the point

Brooklyn BP Antonio Reynoso rolled out a six-page Puerto Rico platform in his run for Congress. He is Dominican, not Puerto Rican, and that is the point.

By Bushwick Daily News Desk

May 23, 2026 · 2 min read

A young person draped in a Puerto Rican flag and others waving flags on a Brooklyn street
News Williamsburg

Reynoso made Puerto Rico the wedge in his run for Congress. He is not Puerto Rican, and that is the point

Brooklyn BP Antonio Reynoso rolled out a six-page Puerto Rico platform in his run for Congress. He is Dominican, not Puerto Rican, and that is the point.

Williamsburg · · 2 min read
Reynoso made Puerto Rico the wedge in his run for Congress. He is not Puerto Rican, and that is the point
Advertisement
Met FreshMet Fresh

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso held a Williamsburg press conference and rolled out a six-page federal Puerto Rico platform. He is Dominican, not Puerto Rican, and he leaned into that on purpose: the announcement was less a heritage gesture than the opening shot of one of the most contested House primaries in the country.

The platform is not soft. Reynoso pledged to be the island’s strongest champion in Congress , and his campaign agenda calls for canceling Puerto Rico’s debt , setting a timeline to dissolve…

The rest of this story is for members.

Enter your email to continue.

PrivacyMembership termsContact

Thanks for being a member.

Filed underBrooklyn / Bushwick / News

Bushwick Daily News Desk. Neighborhood news, politics, real estate, and business coverage produced by the Bushwick Daily newsroom.

Produced by Bushwick Daily News Desk

Neighborhood news, politics, real estate, and business coverage produced by the Bushwick Daily newsroom.

View all posts

Read next

News

Bushwick gets none of the 100 Election Day poll sites where the city’s Civic Engagement Commission posts interpreters

The commission's interpreters cover 13 languages at 68 Brooklyn sites, the nearest at IS 71 on Heyward Street (Yiddish) and IS 93 in Ridgewood (Polish). It does not offer Spanish, which the Board of Elections provides at some poll sites in every borough.

Where to watch election results tonight in Bushwick, Ridgewood and Bed-Stuy

News ·

Hochul closed her campaign in Williamsburg as Blakeman ended his statewide tour at Madison Square Garden

News ·

Mamdani says Trump agreed to a visa for the Ghanaian mother of a Bronx teen shot on his way to school

News ·

More in News

Advertise with Bushwick Daily

Reach North Brooklyn, and the New Yorkers who read it.

Written in Bushwick, read across the city since 2009.

129K site visitors a month 1–2M Instagram impressions a month 24K email list members
Advertise with us →
Become a member of Bushwick Daily