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Stephen Chu

Member, New York Landmarks Preservation Commission

We identified Chu’s voice at 15 meetings. Named Greenwich Village four times, more than any other official.

15 of 23transcribed meetings with their voice identified
10.0min a meeting at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, at least
68questions at the Landmarks Preservation Commission
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Next Landmarks Preservation Commission meeting: Tue, Nov 10 · Agenda

Three clips, newest first

“So if you do remove that earth, you’re exposing more of the facade of the house under the window. Is there a proposed elevation of that?”Stephen ChuMember · Landmarks Preservation Commission · Sep 15, 2026 · 3:06:30Play at 3:06:30
“If those are classified as basements, they then in, in height, they are a basement and 1 floor above grade, correct?”Stephen ChuMember · Landmarks Preservation Commission · Oct 28, 2025 · 2:26:34Play at 2:26:34
“…a lot of ornament on the existing archways that are missing in the proposed. Does that mean you’re getting rid of that?”Stephen ChuMember · Landmarks Preservation Commission · Jun 9, 2026 · 3:22:59Play at 3:22:59

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

What they talk about

Historic preservation took the largest share of Chu’s speech with a checked topic: 100%

By the topic two AI readers agree on for each stretch of their talk, at the Landmarks Preservation Commission. 230 of 230 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Historic preservation100%
Questions

Chu asked 68 questions at the 15 Landmarks Preservation Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Chu’s 5 questions to city departments at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, 5 went to planning and zoning.

Who they question: 5 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Landmarks Preservation Commission5 questions to city departments
Landmarks Preservation Commission: questions by department
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Planning and zoning5100%
Neighborhoods Chu named

9 places Chu named in meetings

Lines where Chu 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
  • Greenwich Village 4 times, the most of any official
  • Tribeca 3 times
  • Brooklyn 2 times
  • Upper East Side 2 times
  • Bushwick 1 time
  • Chelsea 1 time
  • Douglaston 1 time
  • Prospect Heights 1 time
  • Sunnyside 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 Chu was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Chu’s voice

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

  1. Sep 15, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission15.6 min46:56
  2. Sep 1, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission11.7 min27:48
  3. Jul 14, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission28.7 min5:34
  4. Jun 23, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission6.0 min2:08:47
  5. Jun 9, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission22.4 min1:04:51
  6. May 5, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission8.2 min39:53
  7. Apr 14, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission15.2 min37:19
  8. Apr 7, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission17.8 min8:30
  9. Feb 10, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission10.7 min53:33
  10. Jan 13, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission28.9 min36:43
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  1. Jan 6, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission17.8 min27:35
  2. Dec 9, 2025Landmarks Preservation Commission9.5 min1:00:49
  3. Nov 25, 2025Landmarks Preservation Commission14.5 min1:20:15
  4. Nov 18, 2025Landmarks Preservation Commission13.6 min10:07
  5. Oct 28, 2025Landmarks Preservation Commission9.7 min33:45
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 Chu was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Stephen Chu’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 Chu 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 Chu or of New York alone.