Once Executive-Level Attorney for NYC Settles Employment Suit

Nov. 7, 2023, 8:02 PM UTC

A former chief litigator over landlord-tenant affairs for the New York City Housing Authority who is in his late 50s has settled a lawsuit alleging he was pushed out in favor of women in their mid-30s or early 40s, according to NYCHA’s counsel.

Tracy Forrest alleged that his blemish-free 20-year career with NYCHA ended in his late fifties when a new general counsel replaced him in a leadership capacity with two junior attorneys. Those attorneys allegedly stripped him of his employees and said his performance was unsatisfactory in a memo Forest alleged was false. The US District Court for the ...

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