Arker Diversified Companies
Lobbying client
The Arker Companies is a third-generation, family-owned New York City real estate developer founded in 1949 that builds and preserves affordable housing, including The Fountains, a roughly 1,169-unit affordable and supportive housing complex at 888 Fountain Ave in East New York, and rehabbed and preserved affordable buildings on Staten Island such as Elbee Gardens and Park Hill Apartments. It filed 45 disclosures since 2024, registered citywide, lobbying all 51 council members through Constantinople & Vallone Consulting, Ostroff Associates and Stanley K. Schlein on the 888 Fountain Ave property determination and on affordable housing preservation in Staten Island. No city contracts are on file for this entity.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 45
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $198,000
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Constantinople & Vallone Consulting LLC Lobbyist firm
- Ostroff Associates, Inc. Lobbyist firm
- Stanley K. Schlein, Esq. Lobbyist firm
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Determination regarding real property - 888 Fountain Ave
- Budget - Real Estate
- Determination regarding real property - Determination regarding real property - 888 Fountain Ave; Affordable housing preservation in the Borough of Staten Island
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Affordable housing issues
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Issues related to the housing industry
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Issues related to the real estate industry
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - affordable housing
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - affordable housing issues