"By June 2023, nearly 60 percent 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."
"In charge of all the city's leasing is Jesse Hamilton, DCAS's deputy commissioner for real estate services, who has enormous influence over which tenant-starved landlords receive multi-million dollar bailouts from a city administration that can relocate whole agencies to struggling buildings like 215 Lexington."
"On that day, Hamilton was among a group of vacationers returning from Japan at John F. Kennedy International Airport. So was Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Adams' chief advisor. As they exited the gate after their 14-hour flight, representatives of the Manhattan District Attorney and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney confronted the group."
"When landlords struggling with empty office space lobbied for lucrative city leases, they often turned to the same target: Hamilton, who has longstanding ties to the mayor."
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