Peter Braus is President of Lee & Associates NYC (Lee NYC). Mr. Braus has been involved in the ownership and brokerage of real estate for over 25 years. He joined Lee NYC in 2011. Prior to Lee NYC, he was co-principal at Sierra Real Estate, and was previously a retail leasing broker with Newmark Real Estate. He has been involved in a wide variety of brokerage transactions and currently represents numerous tenants including City Winery (master broker for U.S. and Canada), The Phillips Restaurant Group and M&T Bank. He has represented numerous landlords, including the Blackstone, SL Green, The Durst Organization, Silverstein Properties, Tribeca Investments and ElAd. Peter received the REBNY Retail Deal of the Year in 2020 for his City Winery flagship lease of 32,000 sf at Pier 57 in Manhattan. Mr. Braus has completed in excess of 1000 commercial leasing transactions with an aggregate value of over $1 Billion over the course of his career. Mr. Braus holds the Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University and the Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. Mr. Braus and his family reside in TriBeCa.

Vice-Chair, Lee Board of Directors
Member, ICSC
Member, REBNY (Former chair, Retail Committee)
Director, Board of Hudson River Park Friends
Served on Manhattan Community Board One for 10 years as Chair, Tribeca Committee