Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants in New York

What the 20.500–New York join is

CFDA 20.500 is titled FEDERAL TRANSIT CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS. Crossed with New York place of performance, obligations sum to $3,176,244,695 on 15 awards. The national Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants hub includes other states. New York’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,176,244,695 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a project map or a contractor list.

15 awards is a concentrated capital-grant pattern: New Starts / capital investment grants typically post as a small number of very large instruments. The implied mean of about $211.75 million per award is a major-project scale, not a typical bus purchase. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $3,176,244,695, 15 awards, NY, and 20.500. Correlation is not causation.

Capital investment grants are not formula operating aid

The catalog title names Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants. It is not urbanized-area formula operating assistance or highway planning (those are different catalogs). Mixing other catalogs into $3,176,244,695 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: New York, CFDA 20.500, $3,176,244,695, 15 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,176,244,695 by 15 yields about $211.75 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 15 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Questions

How much Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants funding is obligated in New York?

USAspending records $3,176,244,695 in CFDA 20.500 obligations with New York place of performance on 15 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants and New York together when citing $3,176,244,695. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 15 awards mean 15 people or contractors?

No. 15 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $211.75 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $3,176,244,695 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 15 awards mean 15 New York transit agencies?

No. $3,176,244,695 is only the 20.500 × New York cell. Other catalogs appear on separate New York program pages. Nationwide 20.500 is not limited to New York. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 20.500 × NY pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of New York as better or worse.

Have these Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name recipients or contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants–New York table.