NEW YORK CITY, NY

NEW YORK CITY is a filing string, not the five boroughs

$27,182,205 divided by 43,664 is about $623 per itemized line. That mean is arithmetic from the two packet facts. The line count is thinner than many other New York keys on similar dollars, which is a shape fact about how filers typed the city field, not a census of the metropolitan area.

Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island keep separate hubs when those names appear on receipts. Adding them to NEW YORK CITY would invent a five-borough total the Commission does not store on this key. This packet publishes NEW YORK CITY, NY only: $27,182,205 and 43,664 lines.

Why the city string is thinner than the map suggests

Filers who live or work in New York often type NEW YORK, NY, a borough name, or a neighborhood. Those rows never enter $27,182,205. Only receipts that stored NEW YORK CITY as the contributor city sit here. LobbyVault does not recode NEW YORK into this hub. A Midtown mail room typed as NEW YORK CITY sits inside the pair; a Midtown mail room typed as NEW YORK does not. That split is why 43,664 is a thinner book than the map of the city suggests.

Office towers, mail rooms, and household streets can share the same city field. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 43,664 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Questions

What is NEW YORK CITY’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city NEW YORK CITY, NY total $27,182,205 across 43,664 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a five-borough census. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

Does this total include Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Staten Island?

Only if the filer typed NEW YORK CITY. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and NEW YORK are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $27,182,205 is the NEW YORK CITY, NY match. The 43,664 lines follow the same rule.

Why is the NEW YORK CITY line count only 43,664?

LobbyVault counts 43,664 itemized lines for the exact string NEW YORK CITY. Many New York receipts use NEW YORK or a borough name instead. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure and no recode across those strings. The matching dollar total is $27,182,205.

Where do the NEW YORK CITY facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $27,182,205 and 43,664 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. New York non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $623 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.