Topic Mix by Community Board

Outside licensing, the Upper West Side leans on land use and the Upper East Side on transportation

Share of each board's 2020–2025 resolutions by top topic, excluding Licensing.

Source: Block Party resolutions database (live database as of Nov 2, 2026), built from public community board minutes and resolutions. Analysis by NYCuriosity.

1. Each resolution's topics come from a zero-shot AI classifier (facebook/bart-large-mnli) scoring 28 topic labels. A resolution counts toward its highest-scoring topic. Resolutions whose top score is below 0.10 are left out as unclassifiable.

2. Boards with fewer than 150 classified resolutions in 2020–2025 are excluded: Manhattan CB 10 and Brooklyn CBs 3, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17.

3. Manhattan CBs 5 and 11 are excluded because their posted records omit most liquor license votes. From 2020 to 2025, 7 of Manhattan CB 11's 312 posted resolutions mention liquor licensing, against 515 of Manhattan CB 3's 990.

4. Manhattan CB 9 and Brooklyn CBs 5 and 13 are not yet in the database; their minutes are scanned images awaiting text recognition.