Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Lobbying client
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the state-chartered public authority that operates New York City's subway, buses, commuter rail lines (the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North), and the city's major toll bridges and tunnels. It has filed 27 lobbying disclosures since 2024 through Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Holland & Knight, focused on City Council land-use approvals for MTA development projects: the rezoning of the 125th Street Second Avenue subway terminus in East Harlem for a planned mixed-use tower with nearly 700 homes, and the de-mapping of street segments tied to the Jamaica Bus Depot redevelopment in Queens.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 27
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $217,768
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Standardized Services
- City contracts (active)
- $193,744,665 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $5,326,218,246 · 60 since 2006, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $3,642,816,223
- Won without a fresh bid
- 100% of contract value · $5,326,218,246 · 60 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $532,000 · 2 awards
- Funding history
- Funded 2 years (FY2019–FY2026); not in FY2027
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Lobbyist firm
- Holland & Knight LLP Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Transit Authority City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Transit Authority City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Determination of Board or Commission - (1) Change to City Map to discontinue a portion of Sackman Street as a City Street and map as a public park and to de-map as a public park a portion of the…
- Determination of Board or Commission - De-mapping and possible acquisition of portions of Tuskegee Airmen Way and Liberty Avenue as part of the planned redevelopment of the Jamaica Bus Depot located…
- Determination of Board or Commission - Demapping of Edgewater Road from Bruckner Expressway to Westchester Avenue
- Determination regarding real property - 1) Change to City Map to discontinue a portion of Sackman Street as a City street and map as a public park and to de-map as a public park a portion of the…
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).
- Replace switches, locomotive conversion & ADA station work Transit Authority · CT199820221403228 $193,744,665
- CP 74158 LA6 $1.417B Transit Authority · CT199820241412213 · ended 2024 $1,417,756,404
- Bus Purch Track Replace Switch Replace Rail Substation Transit Authority · CT199820231408687 · ended 2026 $498,114,315
- CP69759 NYCTA SIRTOA BUCKET 1 $446M Transit Authority · CT199820211418796 · ended 2022 $430,614,997
- Comprehensive rehab of stations on Flushing & Jamaica Lines Transit Authority · CT199820221403406 · ended 2024 $340,054,074
- CP 73237 LA5 $235.5M Transit Authority · CT199820231420236 · ended 2023 $235,569,750
- CP 66330 COMM BASED TRAIN CTRL QBL $220,530,621 Transit Authority · CT199820191405716 · ended 2019 $220,530,621
- CP 75109 LA7 $211.9M Transit Authority · CT199820251403271 · ended 2025 $211,957,254
- Bridge Reconstruction & Substation Replacement Transit Authority · CT199820231409993 · ended 2023 $205,826,035
- CP73109 LA1 ESCALATORS, FLAT CARS & MAINLINE TRACK $200.5 Transit Authority · CT199820231415707 · ended 2023 $200,489,900
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.
- Bus Purch Track Replace Switch Replace Rail Substation Transit Authority · FY2023 · 6 payments $204,242,280
- Comprehensive rehab of stations on Flushing & Jamaica Lines Transit Authority · FY2025 · 6 payments $108,344,720
- CP 74158 LA6 $1.417B Transit Authority · FY2026 · 7 payments $107,498,818
- CP 74158 LA6 $1.417B Transit Authority · FY2025 · 6 payments $94,242,591
- CP69759 NYCTA SIRTOA BUCKET 1 $446M Transit Authority · FY2022 · 6 payments $89,488,211
- Comprehensive rehab of stations on Flushing & Jamaica Lines Transit Authority · FY2024 · 8 payments $81,218,250
- CP 68140 Purchase 275 Standard Hybrid Buses $76.7M Transit Authority · FY2022 · 4 payments $76,739,633
- CP 74158 LA6 $1.417B Transit Authority · FY2024 · 3 payments $74,047,009
- Comprehensive rehab of stations on Flushing & Jamaica Lines Transit Authority · FY2026 · 6 payments $72,977,330
- CP69759 NYCTA SIRTOA BUCKET 1 $446M Transit Authority · FY2026 · 6 payments $65,317,333
- Bus Purch Track Replace Switch Replace Rail Substation Transit Authority · FY2024 · 7 payments $61,081,099
- CP69759 NYCTA SIRTOA BUCKET 1 $446M Transit Authority · FY2025 · 4 payments $49,525,107
- CP 73237 LA5 $235.5M Transit Authority · FY2025 · 6 payments $45,280,298
- CP 66330 COMM BASED TRAIN CTRL QBL $220,530,621 Transit Authority · FY2022 · 7 payments $40,707,234
- Bus Purch Track Replace Switch Replace Rail Substation Transit Authority · FY2025 · 6 payments $39,610,969
- CP 66330 COMM BASED TRAIN CTRL QBL $220,530,621 Transit Authority · FY2020 · 6 payments $39,142,419
- CP73109 LA1 ESCALATORS, FLAT CARS & MAINLINE TRACK $200.5 Transit Authority · FY2026 · 7 payments $37,464,609
- CP 73237 LA5 $235.5M Transit Authority · FY2024 · 8 payments $36,999,315
- Replace switches, locomotive conversion & ADA station work Transit Authority · FY2022 · 8 payments $32,695,592
- CP73109 LA1 ESCALATORS, FLAT CARS & MAINLINE TRACK $200.5 Transit Authority · FY2025 · 6 payments $32,386,493
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · Mta · FY2019 $500,000
- MTA Cameras - Council District 33 CM Restler · Mta · FY2026 $32,000
Funded by these council members
City Council members who steered discretionary (member-item) money to this organization, largest first (FY2020 and later, where the sponsoring member is disclosed). Sitting members link to their page.
- Lincoln Restler FY2026 · 1 award $32,000
Community project funding secured by (FY2024)
Members of New York's congressional delegation named as requestors of an enacted FY2024 community project for this organization, in the House Appropriations Committee's own final project tables. Each figure is the amount APPROPRIATED for that project, not money paid out to this organization to date.
- Hakeem S. Jeffries Classon Ave Station ADA Upgrade · NY · Transportation, Housing and Urban Development $1,000,000
- Charles E. Schumer Classon Ave Station ADA Upgrade · NY · Transportation, Housing and Urban Development $1,000,000
Community project funding requested by (FY2026)
Members who asked the House Appropriations Committee to fund a FY2026 community project for this organization. These are requests, not awards: the FY2026 bills were enacted, but the committee has not published final FY2026 project tables, so whether any of these was funded is not shown here. Each
- Daniel S. Goldman Interborough Express Light Rail Transit Project (IBX) Preliminary Engineering · 2 Broadway, New York, NY, 10004, NY, New York, 10004 · Transportation, Housing and Urban Development $1,000,000
Federal awards
Federal awards made directly to this organization in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Each amount is what the federal government has OBLIGATED on that award as recorded on USAspending.gov as of 2026-08-31 — money committed, not money paid out. These are prime awards only: federal money this
- Department of Transportation 20.507 Federal Transit Formula Grants · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $6,222,460,873
- Department of Transportation 20.507 Federal Transit Formula Grants · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $4,116,247,783
- Department of Transportation 20.525 State of Good Repair Grants Program · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $2,220,089,132
- Department of Transportation 20.507 Federal Transit Formula Grants · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $1,979,575,353
- Department of Transportation 20.500 Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $1,561,347,167
- Department of Transportation 20.326 Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail · Federal Railroad Administration · Grant $1,415,132,582
- Department of Transportation 20.525 State of Good Repair Grants Program · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $1,138,012,173
- Department of Transportation 20.525 State of Good Repair Grants Program · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $918,000,000
- Department of Transportation 20.507 Federal Transit Formula Grants · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $769,197,264
- Department of Transportation 20.507 Federal Transit Formula Grants · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $704,131,570
- Department of Transportation 20.525 State of Good Repair Grants Program · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $546,809,401
- Department of Transportation 20.527 Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $503,072,497
- Department of Transportation 20.500 Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $465,421,488
- Department of Transportation 20.525 State of Good Repair Grants Program · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $419,097,340
- Department of Transportation 20.525 State of Good Repair Grants Program · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $386,647,564
- Department of Transportation 20.525 State of Good Repair Grants Program · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $325,402,510
- Department of Transportation 20.507 Federal Transit Formula Grants · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $312,863,774
- Department of Transportation 20.525 State of Good Repair Grants Program · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $307,756,580
- Department of Transportation 20.507 Federal Transit Formula Grants · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $297,992,000
- Department of Transportation 20.525 State of Good Repair Grants Program · Federal Transit Administration · Grant $296,386,622