City Council

Thursday, September 10, 2026, 1:30 p.m. (New York City time), Council Chambers - City Hall

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This stated meeting of the New York City Council, held the day before the 25th anniversary of September 11, opened with an invocation by Reverend Dr. Simpson Turner of Mount Carmel Baptist Church and remarks commemorating the attacks. The Council adopted land use items by a vote of 49-0, including rezonings at 47-03 108th Street in Council Member Thomas-Henry's district and 200 Kent Avenue in Speaker Menin and Council Member Restler's district. On the general orders calendar, all items were adopted 50-0 except the appointment of John Manchin to the Board of Standards and Appeals (M 89/Reso 640), which was adopted 40-6 with abstentions after several members explained votes against it, and M 88/Reso 639, adopted 44-6. The Council also passed resolutions by voice vote commemorating 9/11, honoring Alvin Ailey and Carmen de Lavallade, and others, and members introduced numerous new bills during general discussion. Members also debated remarks on Islamophobic rhetoric directed at Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Muslim colleagues.

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0:22 Majority leader is all yours

0:29 .good afternoon and welcome t

0:30 othe state of meeting of

0:31 September 1020 26 I'm majority

0:33 to Shaun Abreu to thank you

0:34 for joining us as a reminder

0:36 decorum must be respected at

0:38 all times, if you would like

0:39 to follow along the agenda for

0:41 today's meeting is posted on

0:44 our website on behalf of the

0:45 body. I welcome the members of

0:46 the public who have joined us

0:47 today during stated meetings

0:48 only members of the council

0:50 speak. Members of the public

0:52 shah remain silent if you wish

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0:55 remarks you make the silent

0:57 approval gesture. Thank you

1:01 .please join u fors the pledge

1:14 of allegiance, elation do roll

1:29 call aldo president areola

1:38 here, Avilés Banks

1:42 . Present Brewer Brooks Powers

1:52 cab on president dela Rosa

1:57 here

1:58 . Dinner wits here,

2:03 Encarnación. Present Epstein

2:07 president party osce present

2:12 Felder clear felice genero

2:29 here, Gutiérrez. Haneef

2:36 Hankerson here looking

2:40 . Phillies here, Avilés hank's

2:56 present Hudson Joseph

3:01 . Present Krishnan Lee lewis,

3:15 martin present Mealy moreno

3:35 here. Narcisse. Here, Nurse

3:42 here. Oh, say here Paladino

3:59 for wrestler here,

4:00 reilly, president salam

4:07 present Justin Sanchez here

4:10 . Pierina Sanchez president

4:15 seto. So so very happy to be

4:26 here

4:26 . Hmm.

4:26 Showman here, Stevens,

4:35 Thomas Henry, president on

4:54 present Inna Vernikov yeah,

5:06 Hudson present

5:06 . Krishnan here. Leeere. H

5:19 Stevens. Here. Williams Wilson

5:30 president one president one.

5:37 Yeah. You on? Yeah, car

5:45 . Abroad president speaker

5:54 mennen here

5:54 , thank you. We will not have

5:55 to say as a vacation, which

5:56 would be delivered by the

5:58 reverend dr simpson turner,

5:59 the senior pastor, mom, mount

6:01 carmel baptist church, which

6:02 is located at 7 14 quincy

6:03 street in brooklyn are let us

6:11 bow our heads eternal god. We

6:15 come before you on this sacred

6:20 eve standing in the shadow of

6:22 a day the City will never

6:26 forget.

6:26 25 Years have passed yet the

6:29 weight of that morning remains

6:31 as real to us now as it was

6:36 then we remember the 343

6:37 members of the y who ran

6:43 toward danger when every

6:44 instinct in creation cried out

6:49 to run away who climbed when

6:53 othe desrscended who gave the

6:53 whole of their lives in the

6:56 space of a single morning and

6:59 whose names are etch not only

7:02 in bronze, but in the hearts

7:03 of this City. Remember the

7:06 more than 2900 souls taken

7:11 that day, mothers and fathers,

7:15 sons and daughters, neighbors

7:21 and strangers who became

7:22 family, family in grief, we

7:24 hold their memory as sacred

7:29 trust and remember to the

7:30 hundreds who did not fall on

7:35 September 11, but in the years

7:36 since who breathed in the

7:38 poison of those broken towers

7:40 as they searched as they

7:44 served as they stayed their

7:47 deaths came slower, but their

7:51 sacrifice was no less complet

7:55 e. Lord, let this City never

7:57 separate those names from the

8:01 343, nor from the more than

8:04 2900. They are one line of the

8:08 fallen, written across 25

8:10 years instead of a single day,

8:14 we ask for your comfort upon

8:17 every family still carrying

8:19 this loss that they would feel

8:23 even now that their loved

8:24 one's sacrifice is not

8:27 forgetting forgotten by the

8:28 City, this nation or you grant

8:32 courage to those who still

8:35 serve in this city's fiv

8:37 ehouses, precincts, rescue

8:39 companies, even those today

8:42 who serve in City government

8:44 who carry forward the same

8:46 willingness to do what's right

8:50 to run toward danger for the

8:51 sake of a stranger grant us

8:56 the living, the resolve t

8:57 ohonor these lives, not only in

9:02 remembrance, but how we care

9:05 for one another steal made

9:06 your peace rest ruled on the

9:07 bide with each one of us. We

9:10 asked this in your holy name.

9:19 Amen. Thank you, reverend, dr

9:21 turner for today's invocation

9:23 ,I would also like to recognize

9:25 mount carmel baptist church,

9:26 which is celebrating its

9:27 centennial anniversary.

9:30 Congratulations, reverend. Dr

9:31 turner is a graduate of the

9:32 samuel De proctor school of

9:34 theology at Virginia union

9:36 university and the college of

9:39 staten island. He was

9:39 appointed by former Mayor

9:40 michael bloomberg as senior

9:42 protestant chaplain of the New

9:43 York City fire department and

9:45 has also served as a chaplain

9:46 with the department of

9:48 correction and the New York

9:48 City sheriff's department.

9:51 Reverend dr turner has

9:53 lectured, oncologist and

9:54 international institutions,

9:55 including at the united

9:56 nations and has an extensive

9:58 record of civic and community

9:59 service. He has been a

10:02 dedicated advocate for

10:03 preserving the memory of the

10:04 12 black New York City

10:05 firefighters who lost their

10:07 lives on September 11 2001,

10:11 participating in annual

10:11 commemorations honoring their

10:13 service and sacrifice as

10:14 senior pastor of mount carmel

10:16 baptist church and executive

10:17 director of the mount carmel

10:19 housing corporation, reveren

10:22 ddr turner has dedicated many

10:23 years to faith public service

10:26 housing, education and the

10:28 brooklyn community. We think,

10:28 reverend dr turner for his

10:30 service, and I asked that his

10:32 invocation be spread in full

10:33 upon the record, we will now

10:38 ask Council Member Justin

10:39 Sanchez for the adoption of

10:41 minutes.

10:41 Motion that the minutes of

10:43 the City meeting of August 13

10:45 2026 be adopted as printed

10:50 messages and papers from the

10:52 Mayor. None communication from

10:53 City, county and borrow

10:55 offices, none petitions of

10:59 communications none

11:00 . Land use kalle ups 91.

11:01 Thank you. I'd asset that

11:03 clerk now take a roll call

11:05 vote on today's land use crops

11:12 valuable. I

11:12 . Arriola, I vote I a village

11:17 . I Banks I Brewer? Yes,

11:32 Brooks Powers.

11:33 Cab on high.

11:35 Thank

11:35 . You De La Rosa, all right,

11:41 janowicz I Encarnación, I

11:48 thank you, Brooks Powers. I

11:51 ask permission to vote on

11:52 everything on today's agenda

11:56 permission granted, I vote aye

11:57 , on all. Thank you. Thank you

12:10 , Epstein high, but yes, I I

12:19 . Feliz ano Gennaro. I thank

12:30 you, Gutiérrez. Hanif, I.

12:33 Hankerson hank's by.

12:36 Hudson, I, Joseph.

12:39 I Krishnan I li hi, lewis.

12:47 Hi, Maloney. I.

12:52 Mart Mealy murano I marcie's

13:02 I Nurse? Oh, say

13:07 . Permissions about what I I

13:08 don't see him today. Denied.

13:16 Yeah. Sorry, in order to speak

13:17 to vote on all items in the

13:17 land use. You have to seek the

13:20 speaker's permissions office

13:21 to do that. And so far you

13:22 have permission for two

13:33 individuals. Paladino, I thank

13:47 you.

13:47 Wrestler Riley, all right.

13:52 Salam

13:52 . Justin Sanchez. I

13:55 . Pierina Sanchez I santos.

13:58 Whoa! So I shulman, I Stevens,

14:07 all right, Thomas. Henry I on

14:19 I. Inna Vernikov how about I

14:26 thank you

14:27 . Wilson I one I wang I doing?

14:56 I Inna Vernikov thank you. Car

15:13 . I'd like to move for you at

15:13 unanimous consent and to vote

15:14 . On all bland use call up

15:16 items criminal order calendar

15:17 items and resolutions granted,

15:21 I'm voting no on eight, then

15:24 89 with resolutions 6 39 and

15:26 640 and I on the rest. Thank

15:31 you. I'll buy you all right,

15:36 speaker. Manon I hey,

16:04 counselors say we like to vote

16:04 on the land, you, scholar. I

16:05 don't think we have your vote

16:09 for that. I wrote, I think and

16:17 and now have now having

16:18 permission from the speaker's

16:19 office. Can you please tell us

16:20 your vote on the airline

16:23 scallops about I on all items

16:25 on today's agenda. Thank you,

16:26 Madam speaker. You got it.

16:36 Thank you. We will now have

16:37 communication from speaker

16:39 Julie Menin. Good afternoon,

16:41 I got to read the vote. My

16:43 apologies, Madam speaker. Oka

16:44 y, today's land use scallops

16:45 are adopted by a vote of 49 of

16:47 the affirmative and zero in

16:49 the negative. Okay,

16:52 all right. Can I just ask

16:53 everyone to take a seat. Just

16:54 thank you so much so tomorrow

16:57 New York and the nation will,

17:00 of course, commemorate 2

17:03 5years since September 11 2001

17:06 ,and tomorrow we will honor the

17:08 memories of the 2977 people

17:13 who were murdered that day

17:16 they were our first responder

17:17 sour office workers are fathers

17:18 , mothers, sisters and

17:20 eso I now I'm asking for a

17:24 moment of silence in their

17:47 honor. Thank you. So though

17:52 the terrorists not only killed

17:55 those that died on 9 11, the

17:57 ytried to take away our

17:59 freedoms and our way of life

18:00 they tried to proliferate fea

18:04 r. But quite frankly, they only

18:05 made us stronger and our love

18:06 for our City and our country,

18:07 we will always remember the

18:09 tremendous tragedy of that day

18:10 of the lives we lost, but we

18:12 were also remember the

18:16 extraordinary selflessness

18:16 that we've witnessed from the

18:19 thousands of first responder

18:20 swho rushed into the burning

18:22 buildings to help people out

18:24 of them bridging the gap

18:26 between human and hero to the

18:28 ordinary New yorkers who

18:30 showed up as a sun went down

18:34 bringing food, drinks,

18:35 handwritten notes to workers

18:37 at ground zero whether it's

18:38 through the memories we passed

18:41 down their classes in school

18:42 or the field trips they take

18:44 the 9 11 memorial museum, it's

18:46 imperative that our childre

18:49 nwho are not born on 9 11 learn

18:52 about these stories, and

18:53 that's why last week, the

18:55 council was so proud t

18:56 oannounce we allocated a

18:58 dollars for a at the 9 11

19:01 memorial and museum to ensure

19:03 that never forget is a promise

19:05 our cities next generation

19:07 will keep alive. I really want

19:08 to thank all the members who

19:11 joined it was so moving for a

19:11 lot of the members who were

19:12 there. They had said that they

19:13 had never been to the 9 11

19:15 memorial they had never been

19:18 to the museum for me. This is

19:19 something that is deeply

19:21 personal. I served on the jury

19:22 that selected the memorial, we

19:24 went through 5200 and desig

19:27 nsubmission some 63 countries

19:30 select michael arad's

19:34 reflecting absence and also

19:34 when you go into that museum

19:36 you get to hear stories from

19:39 family members who lost loved

19:40 ones or you get to hear about

19:42 the heroic acts of the first

19:45 responders or literally, the

19:46 kindness of strangers who

19:47 carried people down flights

19:50 and flights of smoke filled

19:51 stairs on that day, so I

19:54 really encourage any member

19:55 that was not able to come with

19:57 us to please go to the

19:58 memorial museum, they would be

20:00 happy to give you a tour or I

20:01 would encourage you to go with

20:02 one of the schools in your

20:04 district because we just

20:05 funded these field trips, an

20:09 dcertainly we do not forget

20:10 historyimpl sy because of

20:11 chapter is hidden from us or

20:14 chapters particularly dark I

20:15 fanything, that is the history

20:17 we must always remember, and

20:20 so is someone who lost my own

20:21 mother to a 9 11 related

20:24 cancer. I have long advocated

20:26 for a full release of the

20:28 city's 9 11 environmental

20:32 toxin reports during the

20:33 advice and consent hearing of

20:36 corporation counsel steve

20:37 Banks. We secured his

20:39 commitment to release a 9 11

20:41 files. I also want to thank

20:42 Council Member Brewer for her

20:44 great work on this. She's been

20:46 a champion on the release of

20:48 the files as well. So I was

20:50 extremely pleased at this wee

20:52 k, the administration launched

20:52 this New portal so that the

20:55 public can finally view these

20:58 records New yorkers deserve

21:00 full accounting of what the

21:01 City knew what might have been

21:04 withheld from the public and

21:05 how their actions impacted

21:08 first responders downtown

21:09 residents and survivors. T

21:11 othat end, the council also

21:12 secured in the budget, David,

21:13 million dollars in funding for

21:15 the department of

21:16 investigation to complete and

21:17 release its council mandated

21:19 report on the files and other

21:22 step towards transparency and

21:26 accountability. The families

21:27 of victims have questions we

21:28 do as well. And while the

21:29 answer's alone cannot bring

21:31 back the lives we lost on that

21:33 day and look, I want to say

21:35 over 9000 people more than

21:37 that those died on 9 11 have

21:39 now lost their lives to a 9 1

21:41 1related cancer or illness this

21:43 City has an obligation to tell

21:45 the whole truth, which is

21:46 exactly what New yorkers

21:47 expect and deserve. Okay, so

21:51 to transition away from

21:53 tomorrow's anniversary. Today

21:54 marks a New beginning for

21:56 hundreds of thousands of

21:57 public school students are

21:58 first day of school.

22:01 Yeah, great. Okay, let's

22:05 sort of tepid applause. Ok, I

22:07 don't know why. Let's give it

22:08 up for our kids.

22:10 This morning, our young

22:12 people dusted off their

22:14 backpacks swipe their student

22:15 omni card and reunited with

22:17 their friends and their

22:18 teachers after a long, several

22:21 months. The New academic year

22:22 is another opportunity for

22:23 them to learn to ask questions

22:25 to be challenged, which is

22:26 exactly how they will grow and

22:27 we are so excited for the

22:31 mjewish New yorkers to our

22:32 celebrating in kind tomorrow

22:33 is the start of russia, the

22:35 jewish New year, I'll be

22:36 attending synagogue with m

22:37 yfamily reflecting on the past

22:39 year and I wish I want to wish

22:41 Shahana, tova all the jewis

22:42 hnew yorkers who are observing

22:45 last Monday on labor day, we

22:47 celebrated the incredible

22:49 contributions of our workers

22:51 the first labor day actually

22:53 took place in this City in 18

22:56 82 when the union members in

22:59 March 2 union square to deman

23:00 dbetter working conditions. I

23:02 was proud to join our friends

23:05 in labor, the other daejeon,

23:07 their we all benefit from

23:09 their activism and continue t