Manhattan News

Friday, July 3, 2009, by Joey [At $37.5M , this Time Warner Center penthouse became the biggest deal of '09.] We're taking the day off to get our America celebrations started early, so here's a look back at some of the week's top stories: Curbed Roundtable: July State O' the Market Report , That's Rather Fraudulous: A Peek Inside Madoff's Penthouse ...

Jul. 3--The spouse is out of the house. Federal marshals evicted Ruth Madoff Thursday from the $7.5-million Manhattan penthouse she once shared with swindler husband Bernard Madoff.

The new chancellor of the State University of New York already has boosted her annual compensation package.

Prince Harry at the Veuve Cliquot Polo Classic held in Manhattan - A© Clint Spaulding / Patrick McMullan Blue blood, celebrities, and native New Yorkers turned out in style for the second Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic .

The recession may have dimmed Fourth of July fireworks in many cities, but New York is expanding the nation's biggest display from a new vantage point _ the Hudson River.

Neigborhood: strangers really does not much matter. If you plan to make the trip, I warn you: skip lunch.

U.S. marshals seized Bernard Madoff 's $7 million Manhattan penthouse apartment following a federal judge's order that the Upper East Side residence be forfeited by the convicted con man.

Caption: Melanie Chisholm A celebration of The Bee Gees at Battersea Evolution benefiting the Outward Bound Trust - Onstage London, England .... The BEE GEES, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and POISON have teamed up to sue a New York City nightclub boss for copyright infringement.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney of Manhattan said yesterday that she would challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a Democratic primary next year.

A man dragged a woman too drunk to walk out of a posh Manhattan nightclub, took her to his place in Queens and raped her twice before the victim woke up and realized what was going on, prosecutors said yesterday, according to a published report.

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Text and photos by Fred Mogul They're jokingly calling it - Staycation Island,' or so says one of the PR people affiliated with Governors Island.

Four Broadway singing actresses will be featured in a June 29 concert to benefit Rosie's Broadway Kids.

A police cruiser driving in Manhattan's Lower East Side jumped a sidewalk curb and struck two pedestrians after hitting another car coming out of a driveway.

With the much-heralded fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots on June 28th - and by proxy, the birth of the modern gay rights movement - it's tempting to think that the phenomenon was initially restricted to the other side of the East River.

By Zachary Goelman in New York At the Crossroads of the World, street vendors spray the sidewalks with hoses and brown fetid water accumulates in gutters.

Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sunday's gay pride parade and lamented the state has not legalized same-sex marriage.

Sao Paulo's is bigger. San Francisco's is more raucous. Moscow's is braver. Tel Aviv's is newer.

Activists took to the streets here Sunday to mark the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings that became a defining moment of the gay rights movement.