The City Council’s governmental operations committee, chaired by Councilmember Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn), will hold a hearing Oct. 29 examining leases of private real estate by the city Department of Citywide Administrative Services. THE CITY recently exposed major deals to relocate city social service agencies to new buildings, including one owned by a donor to Mayor Eric Adams’ legal defense fund. The city’s head of city real estate operations, Jesse Hamilton, had his phone seized by law enforcement as he landed at JFK from a trip to Japan with Adams’ chief advisor and a real estate broker tied to the deals, who also were the subjects of search warrants. Our nonprofit newsroom relies on readers to sustain our local reporting and keep it free for all New Yorkers. DONATE to THE CITY The post Council to Assess City Leasing appeared first on THE CITY – NYC News.