Empire Charter Service Inc
City-funded organization
Empire Charter Service Inc. is a Brooklyn-based charter/school bus company (CEO John Curcio) that Checkbook NYC lists as commonly controlled with two other NYC bus vendors, Allied Transit Corp. and Empire State Bus Company (the "Empire family," $401 million paid to date across all three). Per Checkbook NYC, Empire Charter Service alone was awarded $45.7 million in Department of Education busing contracts since 2014, won entirely without a fresh bid and now expired, with $116.8 million paid to date.
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $45,733,013 awarded since 2014
- Paid to date
- $119,145,260
- Won without a fresh bid
- 100% of contract value · $45,733,013 · 2 contracts
- Chairman / CEO
- John Curcio
- Common control
- Part of the Empire family: 3 commonly-controlled vendors, $401M paid to date
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
Commonly controlled with (a shared business address)
- ALLIED TRANSIT CORP. City-funded organization
- EMPIRE STATE BUS COMPANY City-funded organization
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).
- School bus pupil transportation extension Department of Education · MA104020159573461 · ended 2025 $35,791,811
- School bus pupil transportation extension Department of Education · MA104020179774587 · ended 2025 $9,941,202