As a candidate for mayor and since being elected, Eric Adams has appeared closely allied with New York City’s influential real estate industry.

Major landlords have showered the mayor with donations. He has frequently met with real estate leaders and has used One Vanderbilt, one of the city’s newest skyscrapers, as a backdrop for photo ops and news conferences. And as a small-time landlord, Mr. Adams once declared, “I am real estate.”

Now his recently departed chief of staff, Frank Carone, who is expected to chair Mr. Adams’s re-election campaign, is strengthening real estate’s ties to the mayor’s inner circle.