The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Lobbying client
Cooper Union is a private college in Manhattan's East Village offering degrees in architecture, fine art and engineering, founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper on a promise of free tuition. It began charging tuition in 2014 and today gives every admitted undergraduate a half-tuition scholarship, with a stated goal of returning to full tuition-free status by 2028-29. Since 2024 the school has filed 30 lobbying disclosures and lobbied all 51 City Council members through Brown & Weinraub Advisors on the education budget and higher-education legislation, and it has held $7M in city contracts since 2015, including $2M still active as of August 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 30
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $151,242
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Professional Services
- City contracts (active)
- $2,000,000 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $7,000,001 · 2 since 2015, incl. expired
- Won without a fresh bid
- 100% of contract value · $7,000,001 · 2 contracts
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Brown & Weinraub Advisors, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Design and Construction City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - EDUCATION BUDGET
- Budget - EDUCATUION BUDGET
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - HIGHER EDUCATION
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - higher education
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).
- DDCTOWNGN, Renewal of Academic Consortium Contract for Town Department of Design and Construction · MMA185020258808204 $2,000,000
- Town & Gown Department of Design and Construction · MMA185020166200107 · ended 2025 $5,000,001