R.C. Stillwell LLC
Lobbying client
The entity behind Riviera Catering, a catering hall on Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island that has operated as a wedding and event venue since 1895 and in recent years has also taken on New York City meal-service contracts, including a Department for the Aging home-delivered-meals contract and a Health Department emergency-meals contract for South Queens sites. It is registered to lobby on budget advocacy through The Parkside Group, filing 9 disclosures since 2025 and reaching 2 council members, Althea Stevens and Julie Won. It has held $59.0 million in city contracts since 2022, $3.1 million of it active as of August 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- 2
- Filings (since 2024)
- 9
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $90,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts (active)
- $3,122,728 · 2 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $58,991,851 · 6 since 2022, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $36,840,880
- Won without a fresh bid
- 95% of contract value · $56,037,765 · 3 contracts
- Based in
- Brooklyn, NY
Lobbied these council members
- Althea V. Stevens Council Member, District 16 (Bronx)
- Julie Won Council Member, District 26 (Queens)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- The Parkside Group, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service City agency
- Department for the Aging City agency
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Homeless Services City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department for the Aging City agency
- Department of Homeless Services City agency
- Housing Preservation and Development City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Budget advocacy
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- HOME DELIVERED MEALS Department for the Aging · CT112520268801457 $2,372,728
- Emergency Operation Sites Food Procurement- South Queens Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620258807688 $750,000
- Renewal for DHS Meal Program - Manhattan Department of Homeless Services · CT107120248801853 · ended 2026 $43,563,509
- Provision of DHS Meal Program Department of Homeless Services · CT107120231408206 · ended 2023 $10,101,528
- HOME DELIVERED MEALS Department for the Aging · CT112520258803240 · ended 2025 $2,151,066
- 85725B0083-ACS - Baby Foods - RC STILLWELL LLC (Items #9, 11 DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720268801092 · ended 2026 $53,020
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- Renewal for DHS Meal Program - Manhattan Department of Homeless Services · FY2024 · 44 payments $6,078,800
- Renewal for DHS Meal Program - Manhattan Department of Homeless Services · FY2025 · 52 payments $2,852,752
- Provision of DHS Meal Program Department of Homeless Services · FY2023 · 17 payments $2,464,562
- Renewal for DHS Meal Program - Manhattan Department of Homeless Services · FY2026 · 39 payments $1,818,345
- HOME DELIVERED MEALS Department for the Aging · FY2026 · 10 payments $1,375,847
- HOME DELIVERED MEALS Department for the Aging · FY2025 · 8 payments $1,070,035
- Provision of DHS Meal Program Department of Homeless Services · FY2024 · 4 payments $676,184
- HOME DELIVERED MEALS Department for the Aging · FY2027 · 2 payments $300,817
- Provider of Food Services Housing Preservation and Development · FY2024 $116,098
- Provider of Food Services Housing Preservation and Development · FY2025 $109,024
- Provision of DHS Meal Program Department of Homeless Services · FY2025 · 2 payments $96,144
- Food Services Department of Homeless Services · FY2024 $48,029
- Food Service Department of Homeless Services · FY2024 $45,669
Where their influence converges
Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in
- Althea V. Stevens It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 3 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction