Bruce Mosler, Toby Dodd, Ethan Silverstein and Todd Schwartz

Cushman & Wakefield started 2026 on a high note, securing American Express its nearly 2 million-square-foot headquarters at 2 World Trade Center, thereby enabling construction to start on the tower. The deal did little to dim the brokerage’s 2025 successes in comparison, however.

“We’re having the opportunity to be a part of some of the most transformed, exciting leases in New York,” Northeast Regional President Todd Schwartz said.

Cushman & Wakefield recruited more people in 2025 than in the previous two years combined, according to Toby Dodd, who began as chief revenue officer last year. Schwartz took Dodd’s place as Northeast regional president.

“We had a fantastic year in 2025,” Dodd said. “We grew globally across each of our regions and each of our service lines.”

Ethan Silverstein had an excellent 19th year at the brokerage, with his team racking up landlord-side leases at RXR’s 75 Rockefeller Plaza and Resnick’s One Seaport Plaza. But he won’t brag about some of his biggest successes — his commercial deal-making now encompasses data centers, and confidentiality is a must in that field.

That being said, Silverstein and his institutional leasing team were able to proclaim plenty of wins.

On the landlord side, Silverstein and Bruce Mosler continued their fruitful relationship with WeWork, leading the company’s deal to secure Amazon in a 112,265-square-foot sublease at Five Manhattan West and expanding Amazon’s footprint at WeWork’s 1440 Broadway to 560,000 square feet.

“It signifies the trust that they have in us to take on some of their larger, more complex deals, and I never take that for granted,” Mosler said.

Mosler praised the growing Penn Station submarket, heralded by high-profile leases achieved at Vornado Realty’s Penn 1 and Penn 2. Mosler joined Silverstein and other colleagues in enticing law firm Goodwin Procter into a 250,000-square-foot lease at BXP’s 200 Fifth Avenue, despite it lacking the traditional location or layout for such a firm.

Outside of deal-making, Cushman & Wakefield in 2025 ranked among the top 10 large, military-friendly employers in the country for the fourth year in a row — a major point of pride for Mosler and his colleagues.