Stephen Ross, the founder and chairman of the Related Companies, is part of the president’s economic revitalization team. He also threw Trump a massive fundraiser.

Even as Related’s Equinox is not paying its rent, Related is dunning its own tenants, Ross is sitting on a giant new Saudi investment—and Trump continues to make decisions that benefit the developer.

Equinox is not paying rent to multiple New York City landlords despite its parent company’s view that payment is an obligation unless a tenant is in financial trouble.

The developer of Hudson Yards has backed off a plan that would have put a giant wall next to the High Line.

Legal aid lawyers say they’re still seeing illegal evictions, and expect a surge in need from millions of newly unemployed tenants once state and local moratoriums end.

At a time when so many New Yorkers are racked with anxiety about their own survival, one major Manhattan landlord is finding new ways to profit from the escalating public health crisis.