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Background Information Since 2002, Council Member Diana Reyna has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to her community through government service and advocacy. She has garnered citywide attention for her tireless efforts – powerfully and successfully championing affordable housing. Reyna has secured thousands of newly built affordable units as well as maintaining and preserving affordability. Throughout her tenure, Reyna has continued to lead the fight for overall increases of city resources on behalf of the indigent, minority populations and middle-class throughout the 34th District. Council Member Reyna is committed to education issues, youth and senior services, and building a sustainable community focused on jobs; maintaining industrial and manufacturing space, as well as affordability and keeping her neighborhoods safe and secure. During this time of economic austerity, Reyna and her colleagues in the Council strongly contested the Mayor's proposed budget cuts and saved Fire Houses throughout her district, ensuring that our first responders will continue being there in our times of crisis. Daily, Reyna continues to envision new and bold ways to stem the obesity and asthmas rates in her community and is a tireless advocate for legislation that curbs the aforementioned afflictions. She envisions a united Williamsburg – decking the Brooklyn Queens Expressway that bi-sects the ‘Southside,’ with a park that bridges the community and improves the open-space ration in Northern Brooklyn. As Chair of New York City Council's Committee on Small Business, Reyna focuses on ways she can advocate for the over 220,000 small businesses across the five boroughs. She understands that they are crucial to New York City’s economic rebound, and that the Council’s efforts are not only for encouraging new small businesses, but on helping current business owners survive. Reyna supports innovation and high-tech job creation, investing in women or minority owned small businesses, as well as business incubators that facilitate the critical work of entrepreneurs in creating start-up companies. She aims to knock down barriers in the path of men and women who are hoping to take a chance, follow a dream, and start a business. Reyna represents a dynamic community stretching from Williamsburg and Bushwick in Brooklyn to Ridgewood, Queens. She was born and raised in Williamsburg’s ‘Southside,’ and now lives in Bushwick with her husband, a sergeant in the New York City Police Department, and two boys. Reyna is the first woman of Dominican descent elected to office in New York State. She attended the Transfiguration School in Williamsburg and Pace University in Pleasantville, New York. Find Us on Facebook New York City Council - District 34
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