Lincoln Restler
Council member, District 33, New York City CouncilRaised shelters and homelessness at six meetings. Named Brooklyn most often: 14 times.
Chairs the Committee on Contracts; sits on 2 more committees
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- New York City Council · Council member
- Committee on Contracts · Chair
- Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation · Chair · until Dec 31, 2025
- Committee on Finance · Member
- Committee on Housing and Buildings · Member · until Dec 31, 2025
- Committee on General Welfare · Member · until Dec 31, 2025
- Committee on Oversight and Investigations · Member · until Dec 31, 2025
- Committee on Public Housing · Member
- Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts · Member · until Dec 31, 2025
Next New York City Council meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 1:30 pm · Agenda
Three clips, newest first
We have corrections officers in the bakery at Rikers Island when we should have civilians that would cost a whole lot less for the City of New York and probably have higher retention as well.Open the meeting at 4:15:17
Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.
Issues Restler raised, by number of meetings
- Shelters and homelessness6 meetings
- NYCHA and public housing3 meetings
- Rikers and city jails3 meetings
- ICE and immigration enforcement1 meeting
Where Restler sits
District 33 on the current New York City Council map
Lincoln Restler sits for District 33. Click a district to open its member’s page.District lines: NYC Open Data, City Council Districts, 872g-cjhh, fetched 2026-10-30.
Every roll call, and Restler’s other bodies
Present at 23 of 23 roll calls at the New York City Council
PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call
Official roll call, from the clerk →- Committee on Finance: 0.9 min of speech a meeting, range 0.3–2.0. In the same range as 12 other members.
- Committee on Contracts: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
- Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation: talk time not compared. Listed on the roster as Chair, so isn’t compared with the members.
- Committee on Housing and Buildings: talk time not compared. Seated for only 4 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on General Welfare: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Oversight and Investigations: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Public Housing: talk time not compared. Seated for only 4 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Contracts: present at 9 of 9 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation: present at 8 of 8 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Finance: present at 19 of 20 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Housing and Buildings: present at 3 of 4 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on General Welfare: present at 4 of 4 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Oversight and Investigations: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Public Housing: present at 2 of 5 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Criminal Justice: present at 1 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Environmental Protection and Waterfronts: present at 4 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Higher Education: present at 2 of 5 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Neighborhoods Restler named
14 places Restler named in meetings
New York
- Brooklyn 14 times
- Queens 8 times
- Bronx 4 times
- Manhattan 3 times
- Williamsburg 3 times, the most of any official
- Bushwick 2 times
- Greenpoint 2 times
- Boerum Hill 1 time
- Clinton Hill 1 time
- Fort Greene 1 time
- Harlem 1 time
- Hollis 1 time
Meetings
Every meeting where we identified Restler’s voice
- Sep 23, 2026Committee on Contracts46.9 min1:40
- Aug 13, 2026Committee on Finance7.3 min1:38:50
- Aug 13, 2026New York City Council2.2 min46:52
- Aug 11, 2026Committee on Finance2.8 min30:45
- Jun 30, 2026Committee on Finance0.3 min8:46
- Jun 30, 2026New York City Council2.3 min1:59:32
- Jun 17, 2026Committee on Contracts31.0 min0:33
- Jun 11, 2026Committee on Finance0.1 min2:38
- Jun 11, 2026New York City Council1.8 min1:30:17
- Jun 10, 2026Committee on Finance4.6 min1:21:21
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- May 14, 2026New York City Council0.9 min42:32
- Apr 30, 2026Committee on Finance0.5 min13:13
- Apr 30, 2026New York City Council2.0 min27:48
- Apr 29, 2026Committee on Contracts37.7 min0:15
- Apr 16, 2026New York City Council3.6 min1:02:36
- Apr 10, 2026Committee on Public Housing4.8 min1:21:45
- Mar 25, 2026Committee on Finance2.9 min4:10:41
- Mar 24, 2026Committee on Contracts40.3 min0:05
- Mar 11, 2026Committee on Finance6.2 min3:04:25
- Feb 25, 2026Committee on Contracts57.0 min6:03
- Feb 12, 2026New York City Council2.4 min36:12
- Feb 11, 2026Committee on Contracts3.1 min0:22
- Jan 29, 2026New York City Council3.7 min34:01
- Jan 28, 2026Committee on Contracts3.1 min0:22
- Jan 27, 2026Committee on Contracts38.4 min5:27
- Dec 18, 2025Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation2.6 min0:42
- Dec 18, 2025New York City Council2.4 min1:00:29
- Dec 18, 2025Committee on Housing and Buildings5.3 min7:43
- Dec 18, 2025Committee on General Welfare1.2 min4:34
- Dec 18, 2025Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts0.3 min6:05
- Dec 16, 2025Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation19.3 min10:38
- Dec 4, 2025Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation1.8 min0:26
- Dec 3, 2025Committee on General Welfare7.1 min54:59
- Dec 2, 2025Committee on Housing and Buildings12.3 min1:30:59
- Nov 25, 2025Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation2.5 min0:24
- Nov 25, 2025New York City Council0.2 min23:43
- Nov 20, 2025Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation26.0 minVideo
- Nov 12, 2025Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation1.7 min0:27
- Nov 12, 2025New York City Council1.9 min33:55
- Oct 30, 2025Committee on Oversight and Investigations7.3 min34:54
- Oct 29, 2025Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation1.8 min0:40
- Oct 29, 2025New York City Council0.1 min16:20
- Oct 27, 2025Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation52.4 min0:48
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged
We identified Restler’s voice at 43 meetings across nine bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Restler was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Lincoln Restler’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 Restler said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Restler or of New York alone.