[2] They are: Summer sessions, often referred to as "yearly meeting" or "Silver Bay" for the camp it is usually held at, is a week-long gathering that all of NYYM is encouraged to attend.
During these meetings, decisions are made when the attendees are able to come to spiritual unity (which is not the same as what is commonly known outside Quaker circles as "consensus").
AVP was started in 1975 by a group of inmates at Green Haven Prison working in collaboration with New York Yearly Meeting Quakers.
There is an ongoing case "Green Haven Prison Preparative Meeting of Religious Society of Friends v. New York State Department of Correctional and Community Supervision" that has reached the supreme court.
[4] The yearly meeting also publishes a version of Faith and Practice, a handbook for NYYM members, and an annual yearbook.