BXP, CBRE accused of negligence in wrongful-death lawsuit

BXP and CBRE are among the defendants in a wrongful-death lawsuit involving an accident that led to the death of an 88-year-old outside St. Peter’s Church in Midtown Manhattan. The daughter of Toni Cohen filed a lawsuit last week in New York State Supreme Court over the accident, Crain’s reported. The lawsuit alleges the church at 619 Lexington Avenue and its contractors were negligent in Cohen’s death, failing to correct “recurrent” issues with an elevator. In December, Cohen was using the elevator that provides access to the church at the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 54th Street. When the […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.