City Councilmember Lincoln Restler said the city should consider working with new brokerages after a lawsuit accusing its top real estate official of favoritism.

pressured Cushman to put his alleged friend and executive Diana Boutross in charge of the company’s business dealings with the city. Hamilton allegedly threatened that Cushman would lose its ...

Hamilton sought to install Cushman broker Diana Boutross at the helm of the “extremely profitable” $1.5B account, telling Cushman that its “account would be taken away” if Boutross was not ...

I’m not afraid. I know what I did and didn’t do,” Lewis-Martin added, according to a filing. “This is wrong. I have God and ...

Top Eric Adams administration official Jesse Hamilton pressured the city government’s top real estate broker to put one of his friends in charge of its dealings with the city, who in turn used that ...

Jesse Hamilton pushed a real estate brokerage to hire a friend of the administration, who then worked on city deals.

JRT claims it was shunted aside by Diana Boutross, a Cushman & Wakefield vice chair who was put in charge of the firm’s account with DCAS in August 2023 despite lacking experience with city leases.

JRT claims it was marginalized at the hands of Diana Boutross, a Cushman & Wakefield vice chair who was put in charge of the firm’s account with the Department of Citywide Administrative ...

The suit was brought by the competitor, JRT Realty, which alleges Cushman & Wakefield executive Diana Boutross was picked at Hamilton’s “behest” in late 2023 to take over running Cushman ...