Tools for New York’s 59 community boards, from who serves to what they decide
Community boards weigh in on land use, liquor licenses, street changes, and the city budget, and their members are unpaid appointees serving two-year terms. These tools track who serves on all 59 boards, teach the procedure that governs every meeting, and make four decades of board resolutions searchable. Members can get email alerts when a board they watch changes hands.
Who serves on each board
How a board meeting should run
Field Guide
How to Be an Effective Community Board Member
A presentation deck distilling NYCuriosity’s Complete Guide to Community Boards: how a board works, Robert’s Rules, resolutions, the District Needs Statement, and the three levers of real influence. Includes speaker notes and a printable one-page cheat sheet.
Procedure Tool
Robert’s Rules Helper
Pick what you want to accomplish and get the exact motion, the words to say, and whether it needs a second, debate, or a vote. Distilled from the City’s official parliamentary procedure guide for community boards.
AI Analysis
AI Meeting Review
Claude reads a real full board meeting transcript against the City’s procedure guide and returns a coaching report: what worked, where procedure drifted, and the one-sentence fixes that make the record airtight.
What boards decide, and how long they take
The Archive
Block Party
The searchable archive of Manhattan and Brooklyn community board resolutions and meetings, with AI summarization and advanced search across four decades. Includes the resolutions dashboard this page began as and the three talks on how it was built.
Dashboard
Board Scorecard
Meeting lengths measured from 2,409 YouTube recordings across all five boroughs, filterable by borough and board: a 102-minute average, 32% of meetings running two hours or longer, and 14 boards with no recordings at all.