The Latest Breaking News from Manhattan

The purchases of Manhattan co-ops and condos totaled 3,585, the most for a first quarter in more than three decades of record-keeping by appraiser Miller Samuel, Bloomberg reports.  “The [housing] market is not as frenzied as it was, but the market pace is unusually fast,” Miller Samuel concluded. “It’s still blistering,…

Libyan authorities said on Thursday they had received nine ancient artifacts including funerary stone heads, urns and pottery that were returned by the United States after being smuggled out of the North African country. All the pieces had been illegally excavated and shipped to the United States, but they were…

Bosses at Manhattan’s Family Restaurant on Glasgow Road had “not taken a wage from long before December” to keep the diner running

On March 10, prosecutors allege, a 26-year-old woman named Lauren Pazienza, of Port Jefferson, New York, quickly shoved Barbara Maier Gustern, 87, to the ground on West 23rd Street in Manhattan and then took off as the older woman lay bleeding on the sidewalk.