By Luis Prada  Published: May 06th, 2020 

Billionaire Adam Neumann, who was ousted from WeWork after the company’s botched attempt to go public last year, is selling a swanky penthouse in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park neighborhood for $37.5 million. The 41-year-old Israeli entrepreneur, whose unorthodox management style made shocking headlines in recent months, reportedly combined a four-bedroom penthouse and a three-bedroom apartment that he bought in 2017 into a massive three-story unit.

The Friday morning deaths capped off a deadly three days across the city.

Manhattan fifth-grader Vale Esposito took home top honors during the first day of the Daily News spelling bee Tuesday, despite being one of the youngest contestants on stage.

Ashwin Ranjan, a 13-year-old student at The Dalton School, correctly spelled “bauxite,” a type of sedimentary rock, to win the day and go to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May.

The 36-year-old Domino’s Pizza deliveryman was dropping off a pie to a building on Fort George Hill near Fairview Ave on Sunday about 9 p.m. when the crew of crooks took his $1400 bike at knifepoint and cut the man’s hand. He refused medical attention, cops said.

L.A. Kings star Anze Kopitar has sold his Manhattan Beach home for $2.9 million, over $1 million more than he paid in 2008.

The HBO series' most powerful superhero is no longer hiding in plain sight.

On Saturday, August 3, at 10:30 a.m. Hagley Museum Historian Lucas R. Clawson will return to the Delaware Public Archives to present a program about the DuPont Company’s role in the creation of America’s first atom bomb. The DuPont Company played a major part in arming and equipping America’s military during World War II. Though […]

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This is the moment a firefighter's star-spangled tribute entertained health workers outside a Manhattan hospital.

Blogger Ed García Conde, who runs the Instagram page Welcome2TheBronx, captured contrasting park photos on May 2 that show differences in how the NYPD is enforcing social distancing.

“Faisal Shahzad plotted and launched an attack that could have led to serious loss of life, and today the American criminal justice system ensured that he will pay the price for his actions,” Attorney General Eric Holder said. 

David Hausman, an antiques dealer in Manhattan, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to obstruction of justice and creating false records, in relation to illegal rhinoceros horn trafficking.

Liberty Reserve, a company that operated one of the world’s most widely used digital currency services, and seven of its principals and employees were charged with money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

A managing partner of a U.S. broker-dealer was arrested today on felony charges arising from a conspiracy to pay bribes to a senior official in Venezuela’s state economic development bank, Banco de Desarrollo Económico y Social de Venezuela (BANDES).

Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, announced today the guilty plea of Thomas Nastasi III, 46, of Mt. Kisco, N.Y., to one count of willful failure to pay the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the payroll taxes of his company, Nastasi Maintenance & Construction LLC.

Three employees of a New York-based U.S. broker-dealer have pleaded guilty for their roles in bribery schemes involving two state economic development banks in Venezuela.

Vladimir Kats, 41, of Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. The charges stem from his role in running Liberty Reserve, a company that operated one of the world’s most widely used digital currency services and allegedly laundered more than $6 billion in suspected proceeds of crimes.

Li Fangwei, who is more commonly known by his alias “Karl Lee,” is charged with violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by using United States-based financial institutions to engage in millions of dollars of U.S. dollar transactions in violation of economic sanctions that prohibited such financial transactions.

BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP), a global financial institution headquartered in Paris, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield in the Southern District of New York to a one-count information charging the bank with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA), for its role in processing billions of dollars of U.S. dollar transactions through the U.S. financial system on behalf of Sudanese, Iranian, and Cuban entities subject to U.S. economic sanctions from 2004 through 2012

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Philip R

The winner will have the opportunity to speak at TEDxManhattan 2014.

ZH architects faced a lot of serious challenges here, and came up with innovative solutions.

Brokers say buyers and renters coming from the city are asking for the same thing: more space and more distance from neighbors and crowds.

He became the scourge of the Mob and white-collar crime in New York

Serena Williams left her Manhattan hotel on Saturday afternoon ahead of her US open final clash with Bianca Andreescu at the Arthur Ashe stadium in Queens. Meghan Markle is due to attend the game.

The Duchess of Sussex was seen with a friend heading into Modo Yoga location in the West Village of Manhattan. Meghan, 38, joined a surprisingly full class of up to 60 people at the eco-conscious studio.

The public hospital lost power when Hurricane Sandy hit on Monday and electricity was spotty as the facility relied on generators, with members of the Army National Guard hiking up to the hospital's roof with fuel throughout the week to power the generators.

Boasting spectacular views over the city, the duplex at 88 Central Park is where the star lived for more than half a century and died this July, aged 95. Dan Dunning, whose father was Holm's third husband, told the New York Times: 'She loved it because of the view of the park and the way she felt involvement with the seasons, just by looking through her windows.

Actor Wass Stevens says Prince performed at trendy Avenue in Chelsea, New York, a month before his death of of an accidental drug overdose in April.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been criticized for being out of town campaigning in Iowa while Manhattan was plunged into darkness by a blackout on Saturday evening.

Hillary Clinton has already organised an Election Night celebration party in New York City complete with fireworks which would kick off only 30 minutes after the polls close.

Donald Trump will be holding an Election Night 'victory party' at a Hilton hotel in Manhattan just 20 blocks from Hillary Clinton's rival celebration.

Bella Hadid was New York City chic when she headed to a swank birthday brunch in her honor at Sadelle's in SoHo.

Former US president Barack Obama was seen arriving at Greenwich hotel in New York before dining with Hollywood star Robert De Niro and Tim Cook in Tribeca on Monday.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tells a press conference on Monday that there will be more cases of the coronavirus in New York City and community spread is 'inevitable'.

Michael Avenatti, renowned for representing porn star Stormy Daniels, is being held at the notorious Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan for allegedly extorting $25m from Nike.

Like many others during this period of at-home isolation, she's been trying to remain active on walks around the neighborhood.

Just a day after making headlines for remaining seated during the national anthem at the Super Bowl, Jay-Z was all smiles while back home in New York City.

The Duchess of Sussex was seen with a friend heading into Modo Yoga location in the West Village of Manhattan. Meghan, 38, joined a surprisingly full class of up to 60 people at the eco-conscious studio.

The Mumbai municipal authorities have delivered a draft 20-year development plan for the city, but implementation of many of the proposals therein could well deliver the final blow to a city already gasping for breath, says Darryl D’Monte.

Conceived by housing reformer Lawrence Veiller and produced in conjunction with the Charity Organization Society, the Tenement House Exhibition opened on Fifth Avenue near 38th Street in February 1900. The exhibition was an innovative, groundbreaking way to educate the public about substandard housing in New York City. It resonated with people in a way that...

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Between 1945 and 1960 the number of television sets in use in the United States rose from a few thousand to approximately 60 million. Although many of the programs shown originated in New York City, many of Gotham’s denizens had to endure a steadily degrading signal reception. The cause: new buildings in the vertically growing...

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Twice at dusk every spring and summer, the setting sun lines up with Manhattan’s street grid, illuminating the city with the otherworldly spectacle known as Manhattanhenge. The phenomenon is a byproduct of the design for Manhattan outlined in the 1811 Commissioners’ Plan, the rectilinear grid of avenues running north/south with intersecting streets running east/west. The...

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Little is known about long-lived David Grim (1737-1826) outside of the brief personal account of his life held by the New-York Historical Society Library. What can be said is that his memory was sound. A tavern keeper, merchant, and owner of Hessian’s Coffee House from 1767 to 1789, Grim sought to leave behind more than an...

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