CHART ONE:
The City’s Top 79 Lobby Interests of 1999 (The $50,000 Plus Club)

This chart ranks the city’s top 79 lobby interests—those who spent $50,000 or more in calendar year 1999. The numbers below represent the total dollar amount spent by each client on paid lobbyists. In other words, we have aggregated all the money spent by the same entity on different lobbyists into one figure representative of their total expenses.

RANK	LOBBY INTEREST	DOLLARS SPENT
Top Three - $200,000 or More
1	Blumenfeld Development Group, Ltd.	265,916
2	Forest City Ratner Companies/FCR Site C/G & 330 Jay St. Associates	236,744
3	American Insurance Association	225,000
	Total	$727,660
$100,00 - $200,000
4	New York University/NYU Medical Center/NYU School of Dentistry	181,219
5	Greater New York Hospital Association	170,456
6	Air Transport Association of America & Air Transport Assoc.	166,050
7	Neighborhood Small Business Association	165,125
8	Kaufman Astoria Studios	157,970
9	Home Depot	135,128
10	National Association of Securities Dealers	123,796
11	Muss Development Co	121,021
12	Hotel Association of New York City, Inc.	114,000
13	International Airport Center/s/LLC	106,537
14	New York City Partnership & Chamber of Commerce	101,803
	Total	$1,708,155
	Total For All 14 Above $100,000	$2,435,815
Under $100,000
15	Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation	97,500
16	Bertelsmann Inc.	96,222
17	Port Authority of New York & New Jersey	95,000
18	Independent Pay Phone Association of New York	90,000
19	Bell Atlantic (NY Telephone Co.)	85,000
20	Metropolitan Taxi Cab Board of Trade	84,000
21	Long Island University	82,500
22	Mattone Group & Mattone Group - Jamaica	81,184
23	Anheuser Busch Companies	81,000
24	Raytheon Infrastructure Services, Inc.	79,200
25	Multis State-Hewlett Packard	79,166
26	SCI Eastern Region, Inc.	78,000
27	Philip Morris Management Corp.	76,272
28	Times Square Studios Limited	75,953
29	Community Preservation Corporation	75,700
30	United Food and Commercial workers	75,250
31	Rose Associates	74,694
32	New York Metropolitan Retail Association	73,719
33	Denihan Company	73,610
34	Peerless Importers/Inc.	72,845
	Charmer Industries, Inc.	72,000
35	League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc.	72,000
36	SMACNA of Long Island	70,000
37	Ferry Point Partners	68,871
38	Davidoff & Malito, LLP	65,000
	De Vry Inc.	63,000
39	Infilco Degremont, Inc.	63,000
40	General Contractors Association of New York Inc.	62,500
41	Mount Sinai Medical Center	61,800
42	District Coundil 37	61,524
43	Legal Aid Society of the City of New York & L.A.S. Civil Division	60,161
44	HBO	60,139
45	Telebeam Telecommunications Corp. & Telebeam	60,021
	Construction Industry United	60,000
	TDI Transportation Displays Inc.	60,000
	Plaza Construction	60,000
	New York Outdoor Group	60,000
	Perez Interboro Asphalt Co., Inc.	60,000
	Outdoor Systems Inc.	60,000
	Peoples Telephone Co., Inc.	60,000
	Kalikow Organization	60,000
	American Airlines	60,000
	New York City School Construction Authority	60,000
	Roundabout on the New 42nd Street	60,000
	Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce	60,000
46	Fordham Renaissance Associates	60,000
47	ECDC Environmental LC	56,850
48	Time Warner Cable/Time Warner Cable of NYC	55,838
49	Fashion Institute of Technology	55,500
50	Schwartzberg and Associates	55,000
51	United Federation of Teachers	54,632
	National Promotions & Advertising Inc.	54,000
	Castle Senior Living, LLC	54,000
52	Social Service Workers’ Union Local 371	54,000
53	130 Watts St. Condominium	52,760
54	New York Association for Taxi Safety	52,500
55	MSDW 745	52,460
56	American Heart Association	52,066
57	Cashpoint Network Services, Inc.	51,507
58	Coalition for the Homeless	50,393
	New School for Social Research	50,000
	American Cancer Society	50,000
	Feldman, Ziel	50,000
	Browning Ferris Industries	50,000
59/79	Intrepid Museum Foundation	50,000
	Total	$4,248,337
	Total For All 79 Above $50,000	$6,684,152

TOP