Welcome @thisflyone !
Glad you have you as a Waze user and interested in editing and meetups!
Regarding the interest in meetups, we have a Discord: Waze NOR Editors
That we all hang out in and discuss editing and even plan local meetups, we’d love to have you there!
We’d help you with any local edits there too, as NYC has higher than normal locked segments due to the high traffic area - hope to hear from you soon!
I’d also start looking at this for new editors for some editing guides:
https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/waze-map-editor-welcome/379135