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Who Paid for Adams Real Estate Chief Jesse Hamilton’s Japan Trip, Council Member Asks Following Report by THE CITY
The chair of the City Council’s government operations committee Friday demanded answers to conflict-of-interest questions raised by a vacation in Japan that included both the mayoral appointee who oversees the city’s leasing and a top executive at the brokerage that gets paid a commission by the property owners on those leases. The trip last month […]
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Adams Real Estate Chief Jesse Hamilton at Crux of Big Deals Boosting Struggling Commercial Landlords
By June 2023, nearly 60% of the office space in the 21-story tower at 215 Lexington Ave. in Manhattan’s Kips Bay was vacant, yet another casualty of the pandemic-triggered collapse of the commercial real estate market in New York. Soon, however, city taxpayers would come to the rescue to fill at least some of that […]
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City Cracks Down on Vendors in Shadow of Kingsbridge Armory
Unlicensed vendors who have long sold their wares in front of the massive and long-vacant Kingsbridge Armory say law enforcement officials have been pushing them away over the last two months, hollowing out what had been a bustling streetscape. “It’s stupid. What motive would you have?” a vendor who asked to be identified as Maria […]
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Cabbies Say Cost to Move to Wheelchair-Accessible Cars Is Too High
Taxi medallion owners facing a new deadline for making their vehicles wheelchair accessible by next March say conversion costs could take cabbies off the road. Drivers and taxi industry workers pushed back at a Taxi & Limousine Commission hearing on Thursday following a federal judge’s August order that all new yellow taxis must be wheelchair […]
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Fired Adams Staffer Offered Businessmen Connections to ‘Politics’
This article originally appeared in Documented. Ahsan Chughtai sat on a gilded chair, wearing a garland and clutching a small water bottle as a group of businessmen paid their respects to him. Prominent members of New York’s Pakistani community had gathered to celebrate his appointment as Mayor Eric Adams’ Senior Advisor on South Asia and Muslim Affairs […]
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