Nasr Sheta

Commissioner, New York Board of Standards and Appeals

We identified Sheta’s voice at three meetings.

3 of 18transcribed meetings with their voice identified

One clip, newest first

Nasr Sheta · Commissioner · Board of Standards and Appeals · Jan 27, 2026 · 1:46:17
“I saw kind of like an approach to argue that it’s going to be some accommodation for the congregants into that proposed apartment on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floor.”

Talk time, and Sheta’s other bodies

Board of Standards and Appeals: talk time not compared. We could name only 8% of the speech they may have given; we compare members at 30%.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Sheta’s voice

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

May 11, 2026Board of Standards and Appeals5.5 min32:04
Jan 27, 2026Board of Standards and Appeals17.0 min6:52
Jan 12, 2026Board of Standards and Appeals18.6 min7:55

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 Sheta was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Nasr Sheta’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 Sheta 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 Sheta or of New York alone.