Community Boards
Dispatch · Add-on Feature
NYC Community Boards — What's Coming Soon
Every restaurant, bar, lounge, members club, and sidewalk café in NYC requires community-board review before SLA approval. We pulled 24 months of meeting minutes across all 59 boards. Here's the live map of what's in the pipeline.
Will your SLA get approved?
Type your NYC address + concept, get effective approval probability, dominant stipulations on your corridor, and comparable nearby venues. Built from 4,380 real dispositions.
Pending Venue Openings
Every pending or recently-reviewed venue across NYC. Filter by board, type, outcome, date.
Where to Open · NYC Approval Map
Ranked board-by-board: approval %, stipulation strictness, top corridors. Pick the district that fits your concept.
What Just Got Approved
Latest 300 dispositions citywide. Filterable by outcome, type, borough. Updated monthly.
All 59 Boards · Status Grid
Working dashboard — extraction status, venue counts, next action, monthly refresh schedule.
NYC Boards we've covered (12 boards · 4380 pinned venues across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens)
Click any Manhattan board for the full operator's guide — what they like, what they don't, district map, recent activity.
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QN03Common stipulations (the actual operating constraints)
Most NYC community boards don't outright deny SLA applications — they use "deny unless stipulations" as their working tool. These are the recurring stipulations operators must agree to. CB3 (East Village/LES) is the most aggressive.
How NYC community boards function
NYC has 59 community boards (12 Manhattan, 18 Brooklyn, 14 Queens, 12 Bronx, 3 Staten Island), each covering 100K-300K residents. Boards are advisory — their votes don't legally bind any city agency — but they have outsized influence over State Liquor Authority (SLA) license approvals, sidewalk café permits, ULURP land-use applications, and DOT/DCWP street activity permits.
For a hospitality operator, the SLA process is the most consequential. Any establishment seeking a new on-premises liquor license, a method-of-operation change, or an alteration must submit a 30-day notice to the local community board. Each board has an SLA committee that meets monthly, hears applicants in person, and votes a recommendation: approve, deny, or — most commonly — "deny unless stipulations agreed to". The full board then ratifies the committee's vote.
That stipulations document is the actual working contract. It typically constrains hours, music type, outdoor dining cutoff, façade, security, drink specials, and requires the operator to return for any change. The SLA almost always upholds the board's recommendation.
Selling into NYC hospitality?
Every approval is a future buyer of equipment, services, and labor. Our vendor surface classifies each venue by opening-stage tier (T1 pre-construction → T4 operating) and maps stipulations to vendor categories so you know who needs what, when.