← cb-tools

Board Scorecard

Prototypes: Board Scorecard Robert's Rules Helper Meeting Review
data.nycuriosity.com › CB Tools › Board Scorecard
Prototype July 2026

Nobody Measures Community Board Meetings. So We Measured 2,409 of Them, Citywide.

A prototype of the public dashboard recommended in NYCuriosity's community boards article, now covering all 59 boards in the five boroughs. Two sources that already exist do the work: each board's own YouTube channel (meeting lengths measured from 2,409 recordings, including six boards' dormant channels recovered through Block Party's records) and Block Party's archive (records coverage). The dashboard's most important finding is its gaps: 14 boards have no meeting recordings anywhere, six more stopped posting between 2020 and 2024, and the metrics the article proposes, minutes timeliness, member attendance, and hybrid reliability, are collected by nobody.

–Boards selected
–Meetings measured
–Average meeting length
–Ran two hours or longer
–Block Party transcripts
Choose boroughs and boards

Everything below recomputes from your selection: the stat pills, the chart, and the table. Fourteen boards carry no meeting-length data at all; hover a board chip for its status.

Average meeting length by board

Meeting-titled videos of 20 minutes or longer, up to roughly the 70 to 80 most recent per board channel. Weeknight meetings typically start at 6:00 or 6:30 PM. Boards with no channel are listed in the table below but cannot appear here.

Created by Tal Roded · NYCuriosity · Source: boards' public YouTube channels, collected July 2026
The scorecard

Click a longest meeting to watch it. Sample sizes vary: some channels restrict video metadata, and a few boards' channels hold only a handful of recordings.

BoardSampledAvgMedianLongestLongest meetingBlock Party transcripts

14 boards have no meeting recordings anywhere, and six more went dark. Every Manhattan board runs an active YouTube channel. Four Bronx, three Brooklyn, five Queens, and two Staten Island boards have none at all. Six others (Brooklyn CB1 and CB6, Bronx CB3 and CB6, Queens CB4 and CB13) ran channels during the remote-meeting era and stopped posting between 2020 and 2024; their archives were located through Block Party's records and are included here with a dormancy note. For the 14, there is no systematic way to watch your board work.

What belongs on this dashboard that nobody collects: whether minutes are posted within the Open Meetings Law's two-week window, per-member attendance, whether a working hybrid option exists, and how many members of the public attend. The measurable part of this prototype took two afternoons; the missing columns are a policy choice, not a technical problem. A borough president's office or the CEC could maintain this citywide.

Method: Author's analysis of the 46 board-run YouTube channels found across the 59 community boards (videos and live streams tabs), collected July 2026. Sample = meeting-titled videos of at least 20 minutes, up to roughly the 80 most recent per Manhattan channel and 70 per other channel; durations from YouTube metadata. Clips, promos, and non-meeting videos excluded by title filter. About 300 videos had restricted metadata (concentrated in a few Queens channels plus CB11 and CB12 in Manhattan) and are excluded, which is why sample sizes differ. Channels not run by the board itself (borough public-access TV, news clips, personal uploads) are not counted as a board channel. Six dormant channels missed by search were recovered by tracing the channel IDs in Block Party's transcript records; their samples end at the channel's last upload. Boards with very small samples (Brooklyn CB16 and CB18, Queens CB8 and CB14) reflect near-empty channels, not collection failures.

Sources: the boards' public YouTube channels; Block Party archive transcript counts by board (July 2026). Related reading: Future of Community Boards Working Group report (2021) on board resourcing.

Created by Tal Roded · NYCuriosity · Part of the NYC Community Board Tools prototypes.