Term-limited New York City Councilman Vincent Gentile has become the sixth candidate to announce a bid for Brooklyn district attorney.

Gentile, a Democrat who has represented portions of south Brooklyn in the council since 2003, spent 11 years with the Queens District Attorney's Office and was elected to the New York State Senate in 1996, serving three terms there before a failed re-election bid in 2002.

The other declared candidates, all former Brooklyn prosecutors, are Ama Dwimoh, who now works as special counsel to Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams; Marc Fliedner, former head of the Brooklyn DA's Civil Rights Bureau who retired from the office in June; Patricia Gatling, former director of the city's Human Rights Commission; John Gangemi, a South Brooklyn solo attorney and former councilman who worked as a Brooklyn prosecutor in the late 1960s; and Anne Swern, who recently stepped down as managing counsel of Brooklyn Defender Services.