Citylights at Queens Landing, Inc.

Lobbying client

Citylights at Queens Landing, Inc. is the co-op corporation that runs Citylights, a 42-story, roughly 520-unit residential tower on the Hunters Point waterfront in Long Island City, built in 1996 as one of the first high-rises on that stretch of the Queens shore. The building sits on a state-controlled ground lease, and shareholders have pushed back against a sharp property tax assessment increase after its original abatement expired. It has filed 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024 through Urban Strategies, LLC, registered citywide and reaching 51 city council members on real property issues. The corporation holds $5,337,273 in active city contracts as of August 2026, part of $5,767,548 in city contracts since 2005.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$84,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Professional Services
City contracts (active)
$5,337,273 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$5,767,548 · 2 since 2005, incl. expired
Paid to date
$2,824,405
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $5,767,548 · 2 contracts

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What they lobbied on

subjects from their filings

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).

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.

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