{"id":184966,"date":"2026-04-03T23:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184966\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:26:20","slug":"we-drew-straws-and-i-won-jd-noland-steps-down-from-mcb4-after-decades-of-service-and-unforgettable-one-liners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184966\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Drew Straws and I Won\u201d \u2014 JD Noland Steps Down from MCB4 After Decades of Service (and Unforgettable One-Liners)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of shaping \u2014 and sharpening \u2014 the debate at Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4), Jean-Daniel \u201cJD\u201d Noland is stepping down, leaving behind not just a record of service, but a trail of quotes that reporters have come to rely on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_2828-JD-Noland.jpg\" alt=\"JD Noland\" class=\"wp-image-137498\"\/>Jean-Daniel \u201cJD\u201d Noland was first elected to Manhattan Community Board 4 in 2004. Photo: Phil O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p>He announced his departure this week in a way that only JD could. \u201cI will be getting married,\u201d he told the board, before explaining that there is a long-standing tradition that married couples do not serve together. \u201cWe drew straws\u2026 and I won. So I\u2019m leaving the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Phil O'Brien Portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cropped-Phil-OBrien-Portrait-WB-scaled-1-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publisher &amp; Editor Phil O\u2019Brien is an entrepreneur and journalist. As an international photojournalist, he photographed Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana and many others. He built a successful international sports photography agency, EMPICS, that was Getty Images\u2019 major competitor in Europe when it sold. He founded a children\u2019s charity in the UK that has helped young people through sport for over 15 years. Phil has lived in New York since 2012. He founded W42ST in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Phil O&#8217;Brien\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After decades of shaping \u2014 and sharpening \u2014 the debate at Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4), Jean-Daniel \u201cJD\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-184966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}