{"id":102416,"date":"2026-01-16T17:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102416\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:36:21","slug":"nydia-velazquez-endorses-brooklyn-borough-president-antonio-reynoso-in-ny-7-congressional-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102416\/","title":{"rendered":"Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez endorses Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in NY-7 congressional race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez has endorsed Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso to succeed her in Congress, breaking with Mayor Zohran Mamdani,\u00a0who last week <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/01\/mamdani-uaw-endorse-am-claire-valdez-for-ny-7-congressional-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">endorsed<\/a> democratic socialist Assembly Member Claire Valdez in the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vel\u00e1zquez, who announced last November that she would not seek reelection in the 7th Congressional District after three decades in office, touted Reynoso\u2019s \u201cdeep connections\u201d to the district in her official announcement Thursday afternoon, which she said would be required to take on ICE and make New York City more affordable.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/velazquez-endorses-reynoso-ny-7-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Brooklyn Paper &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tNydia Vel\u00e1zquez endorses Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in NY-7 congressional race &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; U.S. Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez has endorsed Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso to succeed her in Congress, breaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[46849,44086,2898,98,21313,100,99,9440,858,46850,4866,1091,2495,2659,9,24,12,370,29446,63,8004,87,40378,122,46860],"class_list":["post-102416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-2026-primary-election","tag-7th-congressional-district","tag-antonio-reynoso","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-borough-president-antonio-reynoso","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-claire-valdez","tag-congress","tag-congressional-race","tag-democratic-primary","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-dsa","tag-election","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-ny-7","tag-nyc","tag-nydia-velazquez","tag-politics","tag-qns","tag-queens","tag-u-s-rep-nydia-velazquez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}