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Stephen Wilder

Member, New York Landmarks Preservation Commission

We identified Wilder’s voice at 20 meetings. Named Upper West Side three times, more than any other official.

20 of 23transcribed meetings with their voice identified
6.6min a meeting at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, at least
33questions at the Landmarks Preservation Commission
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Next Landmarks Preservation Commission meeting: Tue, Nov 10 · Agenda

Three clips, newest first

“I think, uh, I can find the overall application appropriate, but I do agree that the Mansard and the Dormers do need a little bit of work on the details and scale and proportions.”Stephen WilderMember · Landmarks Preservation Commission · Feb 24, 2026 · 51:38Play at 51:38
“…your project timeline has fiscal years. Is that saying the work is happening that year or is going to take that long to complete the work?”Stephen WilderMember · Landmarks Preservation Commission · Apr 14, 2026 · 1:03:31Play at 1:03:31
“…just quick question for the extension over both buildings. What was the reason again for differentiating the size of the windows on, on the North Moore Building versus the Greenwich Building?”Stephen WilderMember · Landmarks Preservation Commission · Mar 24, 2026 · 48:11Play at 48:11

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

What they talk about

Historic preservation took the largest share of Wilder’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. 152 of 152 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Historic preservation100%
Questions

Wilder asked 33 questions at the 20 Landmarks Preservation Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Wilder’s 5 questions to city departments at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, 4 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
DepartmentShareQuestions
Planning and zoning480%
Transportation and transit120%
Neighborhoods Wilder named

12 places Wilder named in meetings

Lines where Wilder 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
  • Upper West Side 3 times, the most of any official
  • Greenwich Village 2 times
  • SoHo 2 times
  • Brooklyn Heights 1 time
  • Chinatown 1 time
  • Crown Heights 1 time
  • Fort Greene 1 time
  • Greenpoint 1 time
  • Hamilton Heights 1 time
  • Harlem 1 time
  • Park Slope 1 time
  • Prospect Heights 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 Wilder was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Wilder’s voice

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

  1. Sep 15, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission8.3 min1:12:24
  2. Sep 1, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission8.0 min37:45
  3. Jul 28, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission7.9 min26:42
  4. Jul 21, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission7.4 min30:55
  5. Jul 14, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission13.9 min2:03:26
  6. Jun 23, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission3.0 min2:49:38
  7. May 5, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission5.2 min1:26:59
  8. Apr 14, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission7.9 min43:41
  9. Apr 7, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission5.4 min1:30:03
  10. Mar 24, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission13.8 min48:10
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  1. Mar 17, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission3.7 min38:37
  2. Feb 24, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission9.9 min10:19
  3. Feb 10, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission3.4 min32:51
  4. Feb 3, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission7.0 min42:06
  5. Jan 13, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission15.3 min33:34
  6. Jan 6, 2026Landmarks Preservation Commission8.5 min25:08
  7. Dec 9, 2025Landmarks Preservation Commission5.6 min1:06:57
  8. Nov 25, 2025Landmarks Preservation Commission5.4 min29:04
  9. Nov 18, 2025Landmarks Preservation Commission6.0 min38:43
  10. Oct 28, 2025Landmarks Preservation Commission6.9 min30:33
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 Wilder was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Stephen Wilder’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 Wilder 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 Wilder or of New York alone.