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Ex-Citigroup chairman Sanford Weill has sold his penthouse at 15 Central Park West in Manhattan for $88 million, a new record for a single residential sale in the city.

After taking a brief moment to explain why he was late--he'd been visiting with firefighters just arrived at the hospital after being burned in a tragic Brooklyn blaze--Major Bloomberg kicked off the announcement of New York's new high-tech campus by saying, Today will be remembered as a defining moment.

Wow, the NYPD mobilized a massive sting operation to arrest 141 guys who were selling hot iPhones. Where are all the undercover guys pretending to be clients of high-end financial houses getting those guys on a wire and busting them?

A 64-year-old New York woman was attacked and burned to death shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday in the elevator of her Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, building. Police told The Associated Press on Sunday that a 47-year-old man smelling of gasoline walked into a police station overnight and said he was responsible for killing the woman in the elevator.

Woman Burnt Alive in the Elevator of a NYC Apartment

MVRDV's The Cloud has attracted criticism, but the risk taken is essential for design to move forward.

RIM showed a profit in the quarter, ending November 26. RIM earned an adjusted profit of $667 million, or $1.27 a share. But that figure does not include, according to Reuters, a large write down on unsold PlayBook tablets or charges associated with the company's global services outage.

Thousands of office workers are gearing up for a major strike if a new contract deal is not met. On Wednesday, they marched through Midtown Manhattan demanding a better deal.

Only two choices face those who were arrested for trying to cross the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the OWS movement on Oct. 1. Either admit you did something wrong, or to go back to court over and over again until your case is dismissed.

Suzanne Hart, 41, was crushed in a freak elevator accident at 285 Madison Ave. in mid-town Manhattan this morning

Stock index futures rose on Tuesday following an equities selloff the day before, but anxiety over Europe's debt crisis was seen keeping markets jittery ahead of the Federal Reserve's assessment of the U.S. economy.

Occupy Wall Street roared back to life on the streets of Lower Manhattan Monday morning in a protest that coalesced with 17 arrests in the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center.

Manhattan's criminal courthouse will be occupied this week by more than 700 men and women who are charged with a committing a range of minor crimes while participating in the ubiquitous Occupy Wall Street protests.

A conversation with Rick Bell, executive director of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Dutch architects MVRDV may describe their tower design as a pixeled cloud, but all viewers see are the Twin Towers exploding, and the striking resemblance has sparked instant controversy and threats against the designers. Though MVRDV claims the association is accidental, an earlier interview reveals Sept. 11 was a design inspiration for the team.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended police handling of the Occupy Wall Street protesters and also of journalists, during his weekly radio address. Congressman Jerrold Nadler has called for an investigation.

The Apple Store in Grand Central enjoyed its grand opening Friday. While the 23,000 square-foot store is large enough to accommodate the mobs, the company has other ways to keep crowds at bay.

James McGinniss and business partner Barry Zucker met at Tom's Diner in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn one day last August to sip cherry-lime rickeys and hammer out the details of their long-shot plan to start a literary agency.

Italian immigrant Rita Morelli died a horrible death. Bakaray Camara, 41, was arrested for allegedly strangling her to death in her East Harlem apartment on Wednesday. Morelli's live-in boyfriend discovered her body.

The top aftermarket NYSE gainers Thursday were: Cooper Companies, Pall Corp, AGL Resources, Enersys, Texas Industries, Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Goodrich Petroleum, Precision Drilling, Office Depot and Hertz Global Holdings.

The European Banking Authority noted banks within the 27-nation European Union need to raise €114.69 billion ($152.8 billion) by June of next year in order to meet the authority's capital requirements. That amount is €8.24 billion, or 7.18 percent, more than the supranational regulator had noted on October 30. The balance sheet apparently worsened at certain banks, most notable in Germany, Belgium and Austria.