Crown Castle Fiber LLC
Lobbying client
Crown Castle Fiber LLC is the New York City fiber arm of Crown Castle (NYSE: CCI), a Houston-based wireless infrastructure company with approximately 40,000 cell towers nationwide, and held a city information-services franchise to deploy fiber-connected small-cell antennas on street poles and streetlights citywide. It filed 42 lobbying disclosures since 2024 across all 51 council districts, through B2GNY Group LLC and Brown & Weinraub Advisors, on a proposed Central Park cell tower, Parks Department permits for antenna installations, and fiber pilot programs including microtrenching. Crown Castle sold its fiber and small cell businesses to Zayo and EQT in May 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 42
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $764,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Standardized Services
- City contracts (active)
- $141,030,874 · 4 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $365,262,860 · 9 since 2016, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $320,896,960
- Won without a fresh bid
- 46% of contract value · $169,268,460 · 7 contracts
Represented by lobbyist firms
- B2GNY GROUP LLC Lobbyist firm
- Brown & Weinraub Advisors, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications City agency
- Health and Hospitals Corporation City agency
- Police Department City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications City agency
- Health and Hospitals Corporation City agency
- Police Department City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Determination regarding real property - Siting and deployment of communications infrastructure in the public right-of-way for the purpose of telecommunications
- Determination regarding real property - Siting and deployment of communications infrastructure in the public right-of-way for the purpose of telecommunications.
- Procurement - Activities on behalf of Client's interests related to the siting of communications infrastructure; provide government relations services and assist and advise with government…
- Procurement - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- Procurement - information technology
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).
- IRU Assignment for Finest2 RANGER System Police Department · CT105620231403018 $118,248,646
- Citywide Voice and Data Renewal #2 Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820268803907 $19,259,827
- Dedicated Internet Access Department of Education · MA104020269675130 $2,822,400
- SAND2605 - CIRCUIT WORK Health and Hospitals Corporation · CT181920241406633 $700,000
- Provide Voice and Data Service Department of Education · MA104020169673421 · ended 2026 $193,172,000
- This renewal allow NYC (Municipal and Eligible) agencies Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820228801242 · ended 2025 $14,049,886
- Provision of Optical Ring for Instructional support services Department of Education · CT104020169653726 · ended 2020 $9,263,016
- Citywide Voice and Data Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820200003723 · ended 2021 $7,347,084
- Internet Service Provider Department of Education · MA104020229277610 · ended 2021 $400,000
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.
- IRU Assignment for Finest2 RANGER System Police Department · FY2025 · 14 payments $3,774,142
- IRU Assignment for Finest2 RANGER System Police Department · FY2024 · 12 payments $3,273,454
- IRU Assignment for Finest2 RANGER System Police Department · FY2026 · 10 payments $2,859,360
- This renewal allow NYC (Municipal and Eligible) agencies Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2024 · 33 payments $2,513,439
- Citywide Voice and Data Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2021 · 32 payments $2,139,572
- This renewal allow NYC (Municipal and Eligible) agencies Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2025 · 21 payments $1,832,945
- IRU Assignment for Finest2 RANGER System Police Department · FY2027 $1,103,993
- Citywide Voice and Data Renewal #2 Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2026 · 15 payments $1,087,831
- IRU Assignment for Finest2 RANGER System Police Department · FY2023 · 7 payments $830,090
- This renewal allow NYC (Municipal and Eligible) agencies Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2022 · 11 payments $767,828
- This renewal allow NYC (Municipal and Eligible) agencies Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2023 · 8 payments $684,696
- SAND2605 - CIRCUIT WORK Health and Hospitals Corporation · FY2024 $630,000
- Provision of Optical Ring for Instructional support services Department of Education · FY2020 · 4 payments $609,169
- This renewal allow NYC (Municipal and Eligible) agencies Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2026 · 5 payments $301,263
- Citywide Voice and Data Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2020 · 4 payments $285,000
- Citywide Voice and Data Renewal #2 Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2027 · 2 payments $86,855