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Frank Mahan

Member, New York Landmarks Preservation Commission

We identified Mahan’s voice at 19 meetings. Named SoHo four times, more than any other official.

19 of 23transcribed meetings with their voice identified
8.1min a meeting at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, at least
61questions at the Landmarks Preservation Commission
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Next Landmarks Preservation Commission meeting: Tue, Nov 10 · Agenda

Four clips, newest first

“It’s, um, a big improvement over what’s there. I do think that there’s a disconnect between the symmetry of the rooftop addition and asymmetry of the, uh, the lower portion of the building.”Frank MahanMember · Landmarks Preservation Commission · Jun 9, 2026 · 2:42:44Play at 2:42:44
“There was some discussion about the profile and the detailing, the design, the opaque versus transparent character of the pilasters in the 41 building. Have there been any revisions or refinements to that element?”Frank MahanMember · Landmarks Preservation Commission · May 5, 2026 · 2:08:48Play at 2:08:48
“…on slide 26, there’s a rendering of a building indicated currently under construction. Where is that located?”Frank MahanMember · Landmarks Preservation Commission · Jun 23, 2026 · 1:58:06Play at 1:58:06
“What prevents a homeowner in the yellow area outside of the historic district from restoring their, their house if they’re not a part of the landmark?”Frank MahanMember · Landmarks Preservation Commission · Nov 25, 2025 · 28:05Play at 28:05

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

What they talk about

Historic preservation took the largest share of Mahan’s speech with a checked topic: 100%

By the topic two AI readers agree on for each stretch of their talk, at the Landmarks Preservation Commission. 187 of 187 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Historic preservation100%
Questions

Mahan asked 61 questions at the 19 Landmarks Preservation Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Mahan’s 8 questions to city departments at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, 8 went to planning and zoning.

Who they question: 8 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Landmarks Preservation Commission8 questions to city departments
Landmarks Preservation Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Planning and zoning8100%
Neighborhoods Mahan named

6 places Mahan named in meetings

Lines where Mahan named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

New York
  • SoHo 4 times, the most of any official
  • Upper East Side 2 times
  • Greenwich Village 1 time
  • Manhattan 1 time
  • Prospect Heights 1 time
  • Tribeca 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) file (NYC Department of City Planning, via NYC Open Data). A dot says the place was named, not where Mahan was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Mahan’s voice

19, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Mahan’s first remark.

  1. Sep 15, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission18.0 min29:31
  2. Jul 28, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission6.5 min27:25
  3. Jul 21, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission0.1 min3:05:17
  4. Jul 14, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission6.4 min2:02:09
  5. Jun 23, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission9.1 min1:01:56
  6. Jun 9, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission15.7 min43:11
  7. May 12, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission8.8 min8:19
  8. May 5, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission8.5 min15:48
  9. Apr 21, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission12.8 min28:47
  10. Apr 14, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission7.8 min1:04:16
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  1. Apr 7, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission12.9 min20:09
  2. Mar 24, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission15.9 min50:04
  3. Mar 17, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission5.8 min28:35
  4. Feb 24, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission6.0 min34:46
  5. Feb 10, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission5.5 min39:36
  6. Feb 3, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission11.9 min40:27
  7. Jan 13, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission12.3 min21:25
  8. Nov 25, 2025Landmarks Preservation Commission16.0 min27:57
  9. Oct 28, 2025Landmarks Preservation Commission7.0 min2:37:58
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Mahan was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Frank Mahan’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Mahan said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Mahan or of New York alone.