Griffins Landscaping Corp
City-funded organization
Griffin's Landscaping Corporation is a Peekskill, NY landscaping contractor whose owner, Glenn Griffin, pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy to commit bribery and wire fraud over a 2018 to 2020 scheme to illegally dump construction debris at a Town of Cortlandt facility and then bill the town to remove it, along with a related 2015 to 2018 bid-rigging scheme; he was sentenced on June 11, 2025 to two years in prison, a $50,000 fine, and (with a co-defendant) $2.4 million in restitution, per the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Despite the conviction, the NYC Parks Department opted to keep the company's roughly $25 million in tree-planting contracts, citing a limited pool of qualified vendors and continued city Department of Investigation oversight, a decision more than two dozen City Council members and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson publicly opposed, according to the New York Post. On Checkbook NYC, the company holds $24,600,000 in active Parks Department contracts as of August 2026 (three tree-planting jobs in the Bronx and Queens, each awarded by competitive sealed bid) and has been awarded $77 million in city contracts since 2016 across 19
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Construction Services
- City contracts (active)
- $24,600,000 · 3 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $77,049,745 · 19 since 2016, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $66,145,846
- Won without a fresh bid
- 11% of contract value · $8,771,722 · 5 contracts
- Based in
- Peekskill, NY (NY State)
Holds contracts at
- Department of Parks and Recreation City agency
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).
- XG-424M Bronx Street Tree Planting FY24 - CBs 5-8, 11 & 12 Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620258807505 $8,400,000
- QG-424M - Queens Street Tree Planting FY24 Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620258806411 $8,400,000
- XG-324M Bronx Street Tree Planting FY24 - CB 1-4 Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620258806283 $7,800,000
- Planting of New and Replacement Street Trees Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620221411761 · ended 2025 $10,762,623
- Planting of Street Trees in CB 8 & 11-13 Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620221404038 · ended 2024 $10,514,400
- QG-1119MR - Queens Street Tree Planting FY23 in CBs 1-6 Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620248803684 · ended 2025 $3,982,056
- Planting of Street Trees in Community Boards 1-6 Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620221404696 · ended 2022 $3,125,000
- Planting of New and Replacement Park Trees Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620201404700 · ended 2021 $2,990,000
- Planting of Street Trees in Community Boards 7, 8 & 11 Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620201404699 · ended 2020 $2,990,000
- Planting of New and Replacement Street Trees, CB 1-8 Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620201404696 · ended 2021 $2,990,000