Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
Council member, District 31, New York City CouncilRaised Rikers and city jails at seven meetings, more than any other official we can identify. Named Queens most often: nine times.
Chairs the Committee on Criminal Justice; sits on 5 more committees
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- New York City Council · Council member
- Committee on Finance · Member
- Committee on Criminal Justice · Chair
- Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · Member
- Committee on Hospitals · Member
- Committee on Small Business · Member
- Committee on Land Use · Member
- Committee on Health · Member · until Jan 29, 2026
Next New York City Council meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 1:30 pm · Agenda
Three clips, newest first
So HRA has reported that in Fiscal year ‘25, of the 1,009 people at Rikers approved for supportive housing, at most 14 were actually placed by the end of the fiscal year.Open the meeting at 56:17
Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.
Issues Brooks-Powers raised, by number of meetings
- Rikers and city jails7 meetings
- Shelters and homelessness3 meetings
Where Brooks-Powers sits
District 31 on the current New York City Council map
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers sits for District 31. 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 Brooks-Powers’ 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: 0.3 min of speech a meeting, range 0.1–1.0. In the same range as 12 other members.
- Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: 1.1 min of speech a meeting, range 0.1–2.4. In the same range as six other members.
- Committee on Criminal Justice: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
- Committee on Hospitals: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Small Business: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Land Use: talk time not compared. Seated for only 4 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Health: talk time not compared. Seated for only 1 meeting in 12 months.
- Committee on Finance: present at 27 of 27 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Criminal Justice: present at 5 of 5 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: present at 13 of 14 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Hospitals: present at 5 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Small Business: present at 10 of 11 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Land Use: present at 20 of 20 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Health: present at 1 of 1 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Rules, Privileges and Elections: present at 0 of 1 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Neighborhoods Brooks-Powers named
5 places Brooks-Powers named in meetings
New York
- Queens 9 times
- Rockaway 5 times, the most of any official
- Staten Island 2 times
- Brooklyn 1 time
- Forest Hills 1 time
Meetings
Every meeting where we identified Brooks-Powers’ voice
- Sep 24, 2026New York City Council0.6 min26:02
- Sep 23, 2026Committee on Criminal Justice25.3 min1:32
- Sep 10, 2026New York City Council0.0 min11:45
- Aug 13, 2026New York City Council2.3 min1:37:03
- Aug 13, 2026Committee on Finance0.2 min4:45
- Jun 30, 2026New York City Council1.6 min35:31
- Jun 30, 2026Committee on Finance0.5 min18:00
- Jun 25, 2026Committee on Criminal Justice24.9 min0:30
- Jun 11, 2026New York City Council0.7 min51:54
- Jun 10, 2026Committee on Finance1.4 min58:10
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- Jun 8, 2026Committee on Small Business2.7 min46:40
- Jun 5, 2026Committee on Finance3.2 min4:04:15
- Jun 5, 2026Committee on Hospitals3.2 min4:04:15
- Jun 5, 2026Committee on Health3.2 min4:04:15
- May 19, 2026Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure0.4 min8:18
- May 14, 2026Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure1.4 min2:37
- May 14, 2026New York City Council3.8 min15:11
- Apr 30, 2026New York City Council2.1 min1:00:06
- Apr 16, 2026New York City Council2.0 min1:18:06
- Mar 25, 2026Committee on Finance2.9 min2:03:00
- Mar 24, 2026Committee on Criminal Justice38.2 minVideo
- Mar 17, 2026Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure3.6 min1:04:21
- Mar 16, 2026Committee on Hospitals2.8 min1:13:17
- Mar 11, 2026Committee on Finance0.6 min2:03:09
- Mar 10, 2026New York City Council2.0 min31:35
- Feb 24, 2026New York City Council1.5 min51:36
- Feb 23, 2026Committee on Land Use1.6 min15:50
- Feb 19, 2026Committee on Criminal Justice26.3 min6:43
- Feb 9, 2026Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure7.6 min8:34
- Jan 29, 2026New York City Council1.4 min32:34
- Jan 7, 2026New York City Council1.3 min40:24
- Dec 18, 2025Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure3.3 min0:41
- Dec 18, 2025New York City Council4.0 min1:12:58
- Dec 18, 2025Committee on Finance0.1 min15:29
- Dec 18, 2025Committee on Land Use0.3 min29:53
- Nov 25, 2025New York City Council1.9 min6:44
- Nov 24, 2025Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure10.2 min0:18
- Nov 13, 2025Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure27.8 min29:26
- Oct 29, 2025New York City Council1.8 min47:01
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 Brooks-Powers’ voice at 39 meetings across eight bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Brooks-Powers was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Selvena N. Brooks-Powers’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 Brooks-Powers 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 Brooks-Powers or of New York alone.