NEW YORK CITY, NY: $27.2M on 43,664 FEC receipts

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.

Not a New York, NY merge

NEW YORK and NEW YORK CITY are different strings on FEC itemizations. A researcher who adds them is doing a recode. Quote $27,182,205 and 43,664 for NEW YORK CITY, NY only.

State NY on the key is required. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands. Amended reports can raise or lower the pair.

What $27,182,205 on this string omits

Unitemized federal contributions do not appear in $27,182,205. Many small gifts never become Schedule A city rows. Citing $27,182,205 as “all federal money from New York City” overstates the series and ignores other New York city strings.

New York state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $27,182,205 and outside 43,664. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts. City Council and state legislative gifts that never become federal Schedule A rows sit outside both facts as well.

ZIP codes versus the NEW YORK CITY field

The ZIP directory cuts the same FEC itemized series by five-digit contributor ZIP. A NEW YORK CITY total of $27,182,205 is not the sum of New York postal codes. Filers can type this city with a ZIP the postal service maps to another borough, and the reverse. A researcher who adds Manhattan or Brooklyn ZIPs to this hub is mixing a postal cut with a city-string cut.

Do not treat a mean near $623 as proof that this string is a high-dollar donor city. This packet has no ZIP list, no occupation field, and no unique-donor count. 43,664 is a thin line count relative to other New York keys on similar dollars because many filers typed a borough name or NEW YORK instead. If the live hub reprints a different pair, the newer FEC extract wins.

Citing NEW YORK CITY, NY

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city NEW YORK CITY, NY, $27,182,205, 43,664 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Name the exact string so readers do not treat this hub as a five-borough sum. Staten Island, Brooklyn, and NEW YORK are other hubs with their own pairs. They are not inside $27,182,205 unless the filer typed NEW YORK CITY.

A mean near $623 is only $27,182,205 divided by 43,664. It is not a typical New York household gift, not a typical Midtown office gift, and not a typical borough-wide gift. Occupation, recipient, and party live on other FEC fields. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that NEW YORK CITY is “less active” than Staten Island because Staten Island’s line count is larger; those are different strings. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov for any named receipt that needs a line-by-line check.

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.