ALBANY - New Yorkers just paid for an exercise program for senior citizens in Tuckahoe, endowed a chair in labor studies in New York City, and funded teleconference visits with prisoners near Rochester.

It's all part of the pork-barrel spending over the last four years released late Monday by the Assembly.

The projects are for social services, prison programs, senior citizens centers, arts programs and more, all directed to local groups in lawmakers' home districts. But they add up to more than $200 million a year in spending, more going to majority party lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly.

Good-government groups have said the spending, which they call “pork,” is often used to buy votes and to perpetuate the power of incumbents in Albany where the vast majority of lawmakers win re-election.

But now, for the first time, New Yorkers can see which lawmakers bestowed the taxpayers' largesse on which local projects.

A week ago, the Republican-led Senate posted the names of lawmakers and the pork barrel projects they sponsored the past two fiscal years.

A state judge last month ordered leaders of the state Legislature to disclose the names of lawmakers who decide how $170 million in taxpayer money is spent on pet projects in their home districts.

Details of the grants - which include money for museums, charities, schools and other causes - were posted on the Senate's web site Wednesday under “Senate Reports.” The list includes thousands of grants along with the lawmaker who requested the funding in fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. Information on more years will be posted later, according to Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno's office.

The Assembly's thousands of projects include:

€ $1.62 million for bilingual economic development and outreach in New York City.

€ $800,000 for homeless outreach in New York City.

€ $309,000 to the State University of New York at Buffalo for construction to comply with “gender equity requirements” in sports programs.

€ $100,000 to establish the Betty Shabazz Chair at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York to be “a platform for addressing adversity and empowering victims of violence.”

€ $500,000 to enhance worker education program and fund faculty in labor studies at CUNY.

€ $5,000 for Bobbi and the Strays, a pet adoption service in Ozone Park.

€ $15,000 for a sewer project at the Yates County Fairgrounds.

€ $229,000 for academics and career counseling for prison inmates.

€ $131,000 for a parenting and visitation program for women inmates at Albion prison and to support teleconference visits for prisoners' families.

€ $25,000 for the Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce in Queens.

€ $35,000 to revitalize the Norwood Shopping District in the Bronx.

€ Hundreds of thousands of dollars in individual grants to aid several local programs to provide alternatives to prison for drug offenders.

€ $1,000 to the Tuckahoe Senior Citizens for a weekly exercise program.