Simcha Felder

Council member, District 44, New York City Council

We identified Felder’s voice at 23 meetings across nine bodies.

8 of 17transcribed meetings with their voice identified

0.2min a meeting at the New York City Council, at least

23 of 23present at roll calls, from the clerk

Also sits on 5 committees

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Next New York City Council meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 1:30 pm · Agenda

One clip, newest first

Simcha Felder · Member · Committee on Health · Mar 5, 2026 · 1:16:48
“I’m just— I just want to say to the chair is that the reason that I am emphasizing it is that the commissioner mentioned that you’re going to be spending money advertising, doing things in a variety of publications.”

Every roll call, and Felder’s other bodies

Present at 23 of 23 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. Oct 29, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

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%.
Subcommittee on Early Childhood Education: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Fire and Emergency Management: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Health: talk time not compared. Seated for only 4 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Children and Youth: talk time not compared. Seated for only 5 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use: talk time not compared. Seated for only 3 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Oversight and Investigations: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises: present at 21 of 23 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Subcommittee on Early Childhood Education: present at 7 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Fire and Emergency Management: present at 3 of 5 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Health: present at 12 of 17 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use: present at 5 of 6 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Oversight and Investigations: present at 1 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management: present at 1 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Mental Health and Addiction: present at 0 of 1 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Veterans: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Felder’s voice

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

Oct 7, 2026Subcommittee on Early Childhood Education1.4 min1:00:19
Sep 23, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises8.7 min19:20
Sep 10, 2026New York City Council0.1 min39:36
Aug 13, 2026New York City Council0.5 min58:48
Jul 21, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises4.5 min28:41
Jul 14, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises1.4 min14:57
Jul 1, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises5.3 min2:00:28
Jun 30, 2026New York City Council0.7 min1:20:20
Jun 17, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises1.3 min56:17
Jun 10, 2026Subcommittee on Early Childhood Education0.1 min6:56

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Apr 16, 2026New York City Council0.1 min52:58
Apr 15, 2026Subcommittee on Early Childhood Education5.5 min1:47:32
Mar 16, 2026Committee on Children and Youth12.7 min1:39:09
Mar 5, 2026Committee on Health12.2 min1:11:22
Mar 4, 2026Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use5.5 min2:33:42
Feb 25, 2026Committee on Fire and Emergency Management14.0 min1:01:36
Feb 24, 2026New York City Council0.1 min37:43
Jan 29, 2026New York City Council0.2 min50:26
Dec 18, 2025New York City Council1.1 min1:49:27
Nov 14, 2025Committee on Health1.0 min59:41
Nov 12, 2025New York City Council0.1 min56:13
Nov 12, 2025Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management0.1 min6:58
Oct 30, 2025Committee on Oversight and Investigations2.1 min11:46

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

Simcha Felder

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District 44 on the current New York City Council map

Present at 23 of 23 roll calls at the New York City Council

Every meeting where we identified Felder’s voice