Shanel Thomas-Henry

Council member, District 21, New York City Council

We identified Thomas-Henry’s voice at 34 meetings across seven bodies. Named Queens most often: 18 times.

8 of 13transcribed meetings with their voice identified

1.6min a meeting at the New York City Council, at least

18 of 18present at roll calls, from the clerk

Chairs the Committee on Small Business; sits on 5 more committees

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Shanel Thomas-Henry · Member · Committee on Land Use · Mar 23, 2026 · 42:49
“My next is regarding the Sunnyside plan, um, because this plan seems to be heavily reliant on federal funds. Would we have to adhere solely to the federal DBE program, which recently has been revamped to exclude women and minorities as part of the criteria, or could we use our MWBE program that we currently use to ensure 30% participation?”

Issues Thomas-Henry raised, by number of meetings

ICE and immigration enforcement1 meeting

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Every roll call, and Thomas-Henry’s other bodies

Present at 18 of 18 roll calls at the New York City Council

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Jan 7, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management: 0.6 min of speech a meeting, range 0.1–1.3. In the same range as six other members.
Committee on Small Business: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 57% and 74% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
Committee on Economic Development: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings, Resiliency and Dispositions: talk time not compared. We could name only 21% of the speech they may have given; we compare members at 30%.
Committee on Land Use: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Small Business: present at 8 of 8 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises: present at 22 of 23 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Economic Development: present at 8 of 8 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management: present at 13 of 14 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings, Resiliency and Dispositions: present at 12 of 13 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Land Use: present at 14 of 14 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

Neighborhoods Thomas-Henry named

16 places Thomas-Henry named in meetings

Lines where Thomas-Henry 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 18 times
Willets Point 8 times, the most of any official
Bronx 7 times
Staten Island 6 times
Brooklyn 5 times
Corona 5 times, the most of any official
Manhattan 4 times
Flushing 3 times
Harlem 2 times
Sunnyside 2 times
Bedford-Stuyvesant 1 time
College Point 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 Thomas-Henry was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Thomas-Henry’s voice

34, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Thomas-Henry’s first remark.

Oct 6, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises0.2 min1:23:02
Sep 30, 2026Committee on Small Business17.0 min5:23
Sep 30, 2026Committee on Economic Development17.0 min5:23
Sep 24, 2026New York City Council1.5 min40:12
Sep 22, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises1.8 min5:01
Sep 16, 2026Committee on Small Business20.2 min0:43
Sep 15, 2026Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management3.5 min32:39
Sep 8, 2026Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings, Resiliency and Dispositions0.9 min20:04
Aug 13, 2026New York City Council2.4 min42:53
Aug 12, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises13.5 min0:38

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Jul 21, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises2.7 min42:58
Jun 30, 2026Committee on Small Business3.5 min0:21
Jun 30, 2026New York City Council2.1 min49:37
Jun 26, 2026Committee on Economic Development1.4 min1:04:12
Jun 17, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises2.7 min27:19
Jun 11, 2026New York City Council2.1 min57:45
Jun 8, 2026Committee on Small Business20.2 min0:33
May 29, 2026Committee on Economic Development3.5 min5:01:57
May 19, 2026Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management2.5 min1:28:05
May 6, 2026Committee on Small Business21.2 min0:29
Apr 28, 2026Committee on Economic Development4.3 min26:48
Apr 16, 2026New York City Council2.5 min1:15:33
Apr 6, 2026Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management1.1 min1:21:14
Mar 23, 2026Committee on Small Business34.2 min0:22
Mar 23, 2026Committee on Land Use3.1 min41:28
Mar 18, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises0.2 min48:20
Mar 17, 2026Committee on Economic Development2.8 min1:30:13
Feb 27, 2026Committee on Economic Development4.3 min35:25
Feb 26, 2026Committee on Small Business15.3 min0:17
Feb 24, 2026New York City Council2.1 min46:57
Feb 23, 2026Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings, Resiliency and Dispositions0.8 min14:31
Feb 12, 2026New York City Council5.4 min6:54
Feb 3, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises1.0 min1:56:07
Jan 7, 2026New York City Council2.6 min1:13:24

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