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SCA & MTA

Beyond City Hall.

City agencies aren't New York's only public builders. The School Construction Authority runs its own program, and the MTA runs the region's largest. Both publish their books. This page reads them with the same normalization rules as the City funnel, including the conversion of MTA figures from their source units of thousands of dollars.

Reading the SCA and MTA records…

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SCA under construction
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School projects
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currently in construction
MTA 2025–29 plan
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MTA program growth
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2025–29 plan vs 2020–24 plan

SCA: where the school work is

BY BOROUGH · USD
Awarded construction value of projects currently under construction, by borough
Each bar is the awarded construction value of School Construction Authority projects currently under construction, grouped by the borough code the SCA assigns each project. This is the value of active work under contract, not committed or future budget, and the SCA dataset names no contractor.

SCA: largest active projects

TOP 10 · USD
By awarded construction value
SchoolAward
The ten largest active SCA projects by awarded construction value. Award is the value of the construction contract for work under way; the SCA dataset carries no contractor field, so no firm is named.

MTA: the 2025–29 program by agency

USD
Current allocations in the active capital plan
Each bar is the MTA's current allocation to one constituent agency in the active 2025–29 capital program. The source reports in thousands of dollars (converted here) and sits on the State's books, so these figures are kept on their own ledger and never summed with the City's.

MTA: five capital plans of growth

BY PLAN · USD
Total current allocations by plan
Each bar is the total current allocation of one MTA capital plan, across five consecutive five-year programs, showing the program's growth over time. Figures are current planned dollars, converted from the source's thousands, not awards or actual outlays.

SCA & MTA · Methodology & definitions

SERIES NOTES

School Construction Authority

SCA figures come from Active Projects Under Construction on NYC Open Data (dataset 8586-3zfm): new-capacity school projects and capital improvement projects currently in construction, with their awarded construction value. This is work in the ground today, the SCA's separate five-year plan commits additional future work not shown here. The SCA republishes the extract periodically rather than continuously, so the page carries the snapshot date the City stamps on the dataset, read live from its metadata.

The headline total and the borough split

The headline value and project count are an ungrouped aggregate over every record in the dataset, so no project can fall out of them. The borough breakdown is grouped separately, on the structured borough code the SCA assigns each project. That matters: the dataset's free-text borough column is blank on a small number of records while the code is filled in on all of them, so grouping on the text column drops those records and understates the total. The bars sum back to the headline; anything the SCA leaves without a code would show as its own “Not assigned” bar rather than disappearing.

MTA

MTA figures come from the MTA Capital Dashboard: Agencies Detail on data.ny.gov (dataset kizb-nxtu), using each project's current budget submission. Source values are reported in thousands of dollars and converted here. Allocations measure planned capital budgets by plan, not construction contract awards, the MTA stage is most comparable to the City's “Pipeline”, not its award flow.

Why these aren't merged into the City funnel

The SCA and MTA publish on their own ledgers, with different definitions than the City Record and OMB plan. Blending them would manufacture precision that isn't there, so they stay side by side: same treatment, separate books.