The brokerage claims top Eric Adams aide Jesse Hamilton pressured Cushman & Wakefield to install the executive on the city business account.

JRT Realty was Cushman & Wakefield’s longtime partner for bids for city agency work — until an Adams aide cut JRT out of the deals, a new suit alleges.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

JRT claims Jesse Hamilton — who runs the city’s multi-million-dollar real estate portfolio at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services — insisted Cushman & Wakefield dispatch his ...

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