"Stop Doing Sneaky Sh#t!" - TraxNYC TORCHES Akay Brothers In Diamond District WAR

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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TraxNYC breaks down the full Diamond District war that exploded after rival jewelers allegedly impersonated his brand and scammed a customer. From a $22,000 refund on New Year’s Eve to physical confrontations and arrests, Trax explains why he snapped and why he won’t tolerate anyone pretending to be him.

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0:00.0	So tell us the story.
0:02.0	Who is he?
0:02.8	Who is George?
0:03.6	Who are all the people involved in that conversation?
0:06.0	Yeah, they are, you know, there's just the sneakiest people you could ever imagine, right?
0:12.5	I moved into this exchange in 2018.
0:16.9	And I signed with these landlords, this Bih family, that the father or the uncle or whoever, you know, there used to be a bank there.
0:27.6	They bought the bank.
0:28.4	They renovated it into a beautiful exchange.
0:31.8	And the family renovated him.
0:33.9	I know the family for years, for like 20 years, 10 years before whatever.
0:39.3	And I'm like, okay, cool.
0:40.7	I signed a lease, 2018.
0:42.6	I move in.
0:43.4	You know, I start doing social media.
0:44.9	I start getting popular.
0:46.4	And I fill up the exchange with great neighbors and everything like that.
0:51.5	COVID comes around.
0:53.3	And this family, I don't know if they're Turkish or
0:55.9	Syrian Turkish, they're Christian or whatever. Not that that matters at all, but that's just
1:00.3	people are curious about shit like that. And lo and behold, unbeknownst to anybody, they buy
1:07.3	50% of this exchange. The exchange or the building?
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