Department of Transportation federal obligations in New York

A transportation agency joined to one state

Department of Transportation (agency 069) awards that USAspending tags to New York sum to $17,980,330,000.75. That cell sits between two larger tables: all Transportation awards nationwide, and all federal awarding agencies in New York. This page does not add those parents together; it isolates the overlap. The 4,796 award count belongs only to that overlap.

Transportation obligations often cover infrastructure, transit, aviation, and related assistance, but the packet facts do not break this $17.98 billion into modes. Naming a particular bridge, airport, or grant program here would invent detail the aggregate does not supply. The honest read is agency plus state, dollars plus rows.

Agency 069 without a New York filter

The Department of Transportation profile lists agency 069 awards regardless of place of performance. New York’s $17,980,330,000.75 is a subset of that agency’s activity, not a substitute for it. Awards coded to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or any other state are outside this tie even if the project serves a multi-state corridor.

Because the overlay path is /states/ny/agencies/069/, the live table behind this copy is already filtered. The 4,796 figure should match that overlay’s award count for the same aggregate, not a separately researched inventory of DOT field offices.

New York geography in USAspending

State NY is place of performance. Recipients in New York City, upstate counties, and awards that list New York as the performance location can share the same $17,980,330,000.75 bucket. The join does not allocate dollars among those places. It also does not convert obligations into jobs, ridership, or miles of pavement.

The New York federal spending hub is the parent geography for every awarding agency, including Transportation. Readers comparing DOT with Education, HUD, or other agencies in the same state should use that hub rather than stacking this tie’s $17.98 billion against unrelated national totals.

Concentration in the 4,796-award set

At about $3.75 million per award, this cell is a mid-pack concentration: more awards than a handful of giant NASA or pension rows, far fewer than HUD or SBA slices with tens or hundreds of thousands of assistance records. The average is a quotient, not a typical DOT grant size. A few large awards can pull the mean up; many small ones can pull it down. This page has no median.

Obligations are not outlays. A transportation award can obligate in one period and pay out over several. De-obligations and modifications exist in USAspending’s full file but are not itemized in these two facts.

What the pair is not

This join does not say New York received $17,980,330,000.75 because of any political outcome, and it does not say Transportation spending caused a change in congestion or safety. Those would be causal claims. The table records that agency 069 and state NY co-occur on 4,796 awards totaling the stated dollars.

Related links: Department of Transportation in New York for the overlay, New York federal spending for the state hub, Department of Transportation for agency 069, and All spending ties for other agency–state cells.

New York transportation awards can mix transit, highway, aviation, and other modes in the same $17,980,330,000.75 bucket. The facts supply no mode split, so this page cannot say which dominates. The 4,796-award count is equally unsplit: it is not 4,796 stations or 4,796 miles.

Next tables after the headline number

Department of Transportation in New York is the overlay behind $17,980,330,000.75 and 4,796 awards. New York federal spending is the statewide parent. Department of Transportation is agency 069 nationwide. All spending ties catalogs other pairs. Use those links rather than treating this narrative as a project encyclopedia. No bridge, airport, or authority is named in the facts as a dollar amount.

Infrastructure obligations often cover years of performance. A letting can commit funding in one period and pay out across several. This page has no outlay column and no year column, so $17,980,330,000.75 is not a single season’s construction bill. Place of performance NY also does not prove every subcontractor is a New York firm. Causal claims about congestion, safety, or jobs sit outside the table.

Questions

How much does the Department of Transportation obligate in New York?

USAspending.gov records $17,980,330,000.75 in obligations for awarding agency 069 with New York place of performance, across 4,796 awards. That sum is an obligation aggregate for the pair, not an outlay total.

Does this include every DOT project that touches New York?

Only awards whose place-of-performance state is NY enter the $17,980,330,000.75 total. Multi-state projects coded elsewhere are excluded. The join does not list project names or modes.

Are these 4,796 awards all contracts?

The facts give an award count, not an award-type split. Contracts, grants, and other instruments can sit in the same USAspending aggregate. The 4,796 figure is a row count for agency 069 and New York together.

Is $18 billion what New York has already been paid?

No. USAspending obligations are commitments. Outlays can trail, differ, or be reduced. This page reports $17,980,330,000.75 in obligations and 4,796 awards only.