NYC Community Board Resolutions Dashboard
Searchable, visualized, and downloadable resolutions from 26 community boards: 11 of Manhattan’s 12 and 15 of Brooklyn’s 18. This dashboard now lives on Block Party. Sources: NYC.gov MCB3 minutes, cbmanhattan.cityofnewyork.us (MCB2/4/10), cb7m.com Google Drive (MCB7), Airtable shared views (MCB1/5/6/11/12), Internet Archive CDX (MCB8); Brooklyn board minutes from nyc.gov, cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us, board websites and public Google Drive folders (15 boards).
This dashboard has moved to Block Party
Block Party hosts every board, meeting, and resolution from this dashboard, with the data better cleaned and organized. It adds AI summarization and advanced search, so you can find what a board said about any topic across four decades of meetings.
Turning Public Records into Local Knowledge and Civic Infrastructure
A lunch session for the city teams at the Responsive Cities Network Sprint, run by Data-Smart City Solutions at the Bloomberg Center for Cities and the Knight Foundation: why community board records are officially transparent but practically opaque, how Block Party turned them into a searchable archive, Amy X. Chen's demo of mapping resolutions by the places they name, and an appendix comparing New York's 59 community boards with the closest local bodies in 10 other cities.
View the deck (34 slides, PDF) →Building an AI-Powered Knowledge Base for NYC Community Boards
The main-stage session at CivStart's State of GovTech 2026 in Washington, DC: why community board decisions are practically opaque, how Block Party's transcript archive and this resolutions database, now covering 27 boards across Manhattan and Brooklyn, open them up, and a live walkthrough of the archive for a govtech audience.
View the deck (46 slides, PDF) →From Public Records to Public Knowledge: Improving Access to Community Board Information
The talk as presented to the NYC OMB Institute in July 2026: the full walkthrough plus the story of scaling the resolution engine from one community board to eleven, with source adapters and parser iterations. The corpus has since grown to 27 boards across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
View the deck (47 slides) →Building an AI-Powered Knowledge Base for NYC Community Boards
The School of Data 2026 presentation on how this database came to be: what community boards are, why their resolutions matter, and how Block Party built a searchable archive of them. The corpus has since grown to 27 boards across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
View the deck (44 slides) →