MTA VENDOR PAYMENTS · 2018–2025
Where the MTA’s
money goes.
Search the companies paid by the MTA. See how reported payments reach legislative districts across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
REPORTED PAYMENTS
—2018–2025 · Tri-state vendorsPAID VENDORS
—Names normalized for punctuationPAYMENT RECORDS
—Records with positive expendituresASSIGNED TO THIS MAP
—Accepted address matchesU.S. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
Payments across the region
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COMPANIES IN THE RECORD
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SOURCES & METHODS
What the record
can tell you.
An independent analysis by Liam Blank, building on Reinvent Albany’s research into the geography of MTA vendor payments.
Download source manifest ↗What counts as a payment?
Totals sum Amount Expended for Fiscal Year in the MTA’s annual procurement reports for 2018–2025. Contract awards and cumulative expenditures are not added. The explorer includes positive expenditure records with a reported vendor state of NY, NJ, or CT. Zero-expenditure records remain in the source but are omitted here. Values are reported dollars, without an inflation adjustment.
The source covers reported procurement transactions; it is not a complete ledger of every MTA expense. Vendor payments can cover operating purchases and capital work. The data does not identify a funding source for every payment.
How are vendors and repeated rows handled?
Vendor names are grouped only after normalizing capitalization, punctuation, and whitespace. Legal suffixes, mergers, subsidiaries, and joint ventures remain distinct. A company profile shows the original names. Address locations remain separate.
Repeated identical rows remain in the default totals. The optional exclusion removes later copies of rows identical across every published field. This is a sensitivity check; the source does not establish whether each repeat is an error.
Who represents each district, and which communities are included?
Officeholders and party labels reflect the official legislative directories checked October 1, 2026. New Jersey profiles show the senator and both Assembly members for each shared district. Member names link to their official profiles. Portraits come from legislative offices and members’ published profiles. Open States supplies supplementary portrait links and New York Assembly party labels matched to the official roster.
Community summaries identify up to six cities, towns, municipalities, or New York City neighborhoods within each district. District boundaries are intersected with 2025 Census municipal boundaries and NYC Planning’s 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas. Split communities are marked “part.” Districts within one or two New York towns also identify selected villages and Census-designated communities. The brief list represents the district’s primary communities; municipal and neighborhood boundaries can extend beyond a district.
How are payments assigned to districts?
Published street addresses are submitted to the U.S. Census Geocoder using its Public_AR_Current benchmark. Leading zeros in four-digit ZIP codes are restored; floor and suite labels are removed where needed; and a street address in the second address line is used when the first line contains a company or contact name. Original addresses remain in the downloads.
Default district totals use Census matches classified as exact and additional NYC Planning Property Address Directory matches. The NYC matches require the same house number, normalized street name, and ZIP code, with candidates resolving to one tax lot. All accepted locations are intersected with the full 2025 TIGER/Line district boundaries. Non-exact Census matches can be included separately. Census locations are estimates along street address ranges; NYC Planning locations are derived from address directory building or parcel points. Neither verifies a vendor’s physical operations. Unmatched, ambiguous, and out-of-state matches remain unassigned. ZIP-code centroids are not used.
All years use the same geography: the 119th Congress and the state legislative districts for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut in the 2025 TIGER/Line files. New Jersey’s 40 districts serve both the Senate and General Assembly. Connecticut has 36 Senate districts and 151 House districts. These are payments associated with today’s district geography, not payments attributed to each past officeholder.
What does a vendor address establish?
A reported address can be a headquarters, office, mailing address, or remittance destination. It does not establish where a project was built, where goods were manufactured, or where workers live. Payments cannot be converted into district job counts from this dataset alone.
The map can show districts with no assigned payments even when vendors there receive money: missing or unresolved addresses can prevent assignment. A mapped zero is not evidence that the MTA paid no company in that district.
Source records and preceding research
- OpenStreetMap street basemap, displayed with Leaflet
- MTA annual procurement records, Open NY
- NYC Planning GeoSearch and the Property Address Directory
- U.S. Census Geocoder documentation
- New Jersey legislative districts and chambers
- Connecticut General Assembly: Senate and House
- 2025 TIGER/Line district boundaries
- Reinvent Albany’s February 2025 tri-state analysis
- Reinvent Albany’s October 2025 national analysis
This explorer uses an independent calculation and a different time window. Its totals should not be treated as a direct revision of Reinvent Albany’s 2014–2023 figures.