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Mamana says borough spending data came only from Visa

New York City Council · Sep 30, 2026 · starts 0:42:57 · 31 sec

Mamana says the visitor spending figures were pulled from Visa card data. Thomas-Henry asks whether the city will pull other sources, and Mamana says it can but there are additional costs and American Express data was not used.

Nancy Mamana

The numbers that we cited for spend, for visitor spend, was pulled from Visa card data.

Nancy Mamana

So we will only include Visa card.

Nancy Mamana

That's the source we were able to pull.

Shanel Thomas-Henry

Okay.

Shanel Thomas-Henry

Are we looking at pulling data from any other sources to see what the true impact was?

Nancy Mamana

We can do that.

Nancy Mamana

There are additional costs to doing that.

Nancy Mamana

American Express also offers that, but we were able to get it most quickly from Visa.

Shanel Thomas-Henry

Okay.

Shanel Thomas-Henry

I'll move on.