Robert F. Holden

Former member, Council, New York City Council

We identified Holden’s voice at eight meetings across three bodies.

Former member. Holden’s term ended Dec 31, 2025; our record covers only the final months.

4 of 4transcribed meetings with their voice identified

5 of 5present at roll calls through Dec 18, 2025, from the clerk

Every roll call, and Holden’s other bodies

Present at 5 of 5 roll calls at the New York City Council, roll call through Dec 18, 2025

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Oct 29, 2025 to Dec 18, 2025.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

New York City Council: talk time not compared. Seated for only 4 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Veterans: talk time not compared. Listed on the roster as Chair, so isn’t compared with the members.
Committee on Public Safety: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Veterans: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Public Safety: present at 2 of 2 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 Parks and Recreation: present at 3 of 3 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Technology: present at 1 of 1 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

Neighborhoods Holden named

One place Holden named in meetings

Lines where Holden 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

Queens 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 Holden was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Holden’s voice

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

Dec 18, 2025New York City Council5.5 min1:54:17
Dec 18, 2025Committee on Public Safety0.1 min5:41
Dec 17, 2025Committee on Veterans5.7 min0:28
Dec 3, 2025Committee on Veterans24.2 min45:14
Nov 25, 2025New York City Council0.1 min19:24
Nov 19, 2025Committee on Public Safety5.2 min1:27:12
Nov 12, 2025New York City Council0.9 min44:15
Oct 29, 2025New York City Council1.7 min1:29:42

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

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Holden was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Robert F. Holden’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 Holden 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 Holden or of New York alone.