Total cost of the convention: $166 million
Reported amount that Bloomberg personally contributed: $7 million
Amount that will be spent on security: $76 million
Amount of the security costs the federal government will pay for: $50 million
Amount city officials predict the convention will add to the local economy: $250 million
Amount Boston officials predicted would be added to Boston’s
economy: $154 million
Amount actually added: $14.8 million
Number of delegates and alternate delegates to the RNC: 4,853
Number of hotel rooms reserved for delegates and convention staffers: 18,000
Monthly price of RNC Host Committee CEO Bill Harris’s room at the Ritz-Carlton (paid for by the committee): $9,500
Most expensive Craigslist sublet during the convention: $40,000 for
a three-bedroom in Trump World Plaza
Number of protesters staying for free at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem: 30 to 50
Number of protesters arrested the day Bloomberg announced a tourist discount program for them: 4
Total number of people arrested at the Democratic convention: 6
Number of police who will patrol around Madison Square Garden: 10,000
Overtime that will be paid to
cops: $28 million
Overtime paid during the February 2003 antiwar protest: $5 million
Cost to renovate the Farley Post Office, where media will be headquartered: $3.8 million
Cost to journalists for a microdermabrasion skin treatment arranged by the host committee:
free
Regular cost: $185
Total number of hours ABC, CBS, and NBC will each devote to convention coverage: 3
Number of hours NBC is devoting to the Olympics: 226
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