Federal contributions from ZIP 10153

Four thousand eight hundred lines against $25,905,832

Four thousand eight hundred seventy-seven itemized receipts add to $25,905,832. The mean is about $5,312 per line ($25,905,832 / 4,877). That is a high mean for a Midtown office ZIP. It is the arithmetic you get when large committee transfers share a tower code with a shorter personal-itemization list. Comparing 10153 with a high-volume residential code without noting the 4,877-line gap will mislead a reader.

ZIP 10153 is used on Midtown office mail, including tower letterhead. LobbyVault does not relabel those rows as non-residential; the ZIP field is whatever the filer reported. The $25,905,832 total therefore follows the form, not a residential occupancy file.

A shorter Midtown list is still a public record. It is useful for seeing where committees file. It is a poor proxy for how a block votes. Keep those questions out of a ZIP rollup that only contains dollars and a receipt count.

Why a 4,877-line ZIP distorts neighborhood stories

If you treat $25,905,832 as what people in 10153 gave, you invent a neighborhood that the form field does not describe. Four thousand eight hundred seventy-seven rows is short enough that the largest lines are easy to inspect. Sort the ZIP 10153 FEC page by amount. A handful of payers can account for a large share of the total. That is a reading of the table, not a motive claim.

A mean near $5,312 is a prompt to read the payer column, not a typical household check. LobbyVault’s ZIP total follows the ZIP on each itemization it includes. It does not reconstruct the full path of every dollar.

What this packet will not tell you

There is no unique-donor count, no party split, and no industry rollup. Four thousand eight hundred seventy-seven receipts are contribution lines, not people. Occupations on individual rows are outside these facts. Do not build an industry story from a ZIP total that does not include employer aggregates.

10153 is not a borough total and not a New York City Campaign Finance Board figure. It is federal itemizations only, from FEC.gov. Local and state filings use other databases. Mixing them with $25,905,832 would invent a combined number this packet does not contain.

Treat 10153 as mixed office mail

A mean near $5,312 is not a co-op average. It is a prompt to read the payer column. If the top rows are committee names, describe 10153 as a filing address. If personal itemizations dominate after all, the table will show that; the ZIP sum will not.

Do not rank 10153 against a residential ZIP on dollars alone. Include the 4,877-receipt count in the comparison. The all-ZIP index shows both facts. The donor directory remains the name-level table. This packet still has no unique-donor count to convert 4,877 into people.

Where to continue from 10153

The ZIP 10153 FEC page holds the 4,877-row table behind $25,905,832. Rank other codes on the all-ZIP index, remembering that office ZIPs and residential ZIPs share a ranking but not a meaning. Use the donor directory for names. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls. Cite $25,905,832 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 10153.

Unitemized federal gifts never enter $25,905,832. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter it. Recheck after a restatement. Quote $25,905,832 with 4,877 contributions. The mean of about $5,312 is $25,905,832 divided by 4,877.

Lexington Avenue office mail on a short list

Four thousand eight hundred seventy-seven itemizations against $25,905,832 produce a mean of about $5,312. Rank 10153 against a residential ZIP on dollars alone and the comparison fails. Include the 4,877-receipt count. Sort the ZIP 10153 FEC page by amount. A handful of payers can account for a large share of the total.

New York State Board of Elections filings never enter $25,905,832. Unitemized federal gifts never enter it. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter it. The packet has no unique-donor field, so 4,877 cannot be restated as people. Occupations on individual rows are outside these facts.

Office ZIPs and residential ZIPs share a ranking on the all-ZIP directory but not a meaning. Do not treat $25,905,832 as a Midtown neighborhood census. The donor directory remains the name-level table. Quote $25,905,832 with 4,877 contributions.

If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls. Recheck after a restatement. A mean near $5,312 is a prompt to read the payer column. Cite $25,905,832 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 10153. LobbyVault is the index, not the filing system.

Questions

What is the ZIP 10153 contribution total?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 10153 total $25,905,832 across 4,877 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Midtown residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $5,312 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 10153?

LobbyVault counts 4,877 itemized contributions for ZIP 10153. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. Those rows are itemized Schedule A lines, not people. The matching dollar total is $25,905,832.

Does ZIP 10153 include only Midtown residents?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. Office and committee addresses in the 10153 grid can be part of $25,905,832 when that is what was filed. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 4,877-line count follows the same rule.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 10153 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $25,905,832 and 4,877 lines for ZIP 10153. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. New York State filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.