Chevra Hatzalah
Lobbying client
A volunteer-run Jewish ambulance service that began in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the late 1960s and is widely described as the largest all-volunteer EMS system in the country, coordinating more than a dozen neighborhood chapters and roughly 1,500 volunteer EMTs and paramedics across New York's Orthodox Jewish communities. It has filed 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024, lobbying five council members, including Gale Brewer, James Gennaro and Kalman Yeger, through The Friedlander Group on city budget member-item and discretionary funding.
- Council members lobbied
- 5
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $195,000
Lobbied these council members
- James F. Gennaro Council Member, District 24 (Queens)
- Rita C. Joseph Council Member, District 40 (Brooklyn)
- Gale A. Brewer Council Member, District 6 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- The Friedlander Group Lobbyist firm
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Julie Menin
- Kalman Yeger
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Member Item
- Budget - discretionary funding
- Budget - member item