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To see this news on a map, visit YourStreet.com. en-us NEW YORK (AP) — A debate has been raging in New York over the fact that Bernard Madoff remains free on bail, spending his days in his luxury Manhattan penthouse despite being... http://www.yourstreet.com/5008996/debate-rages-over-whether-madoff-should-be-in-jail While market reports show rents have gone down in Manhattan, Fritz Frigan, the executive director of sales and leasing for Halstead Property, said an even better measure of the... http://www.yourstreet.com/5008727/rental-buildings-pay-broker-s-fees-offer-free-rent Also in the Morning Buzz: the new Manhattan Marriage Bureau; Governor Paterson's State of the State address; and more headlines from local papers. http://www.yourstreet.com/5008819/elderly-madoff-investors-in-financial-trouble A former DMV office near City Hall has completed a $12 million conversion that turned the dour space into...a wedding chapel. The new Manhattan Marriage Bureau replaces the... http://www.yourstreet.com/5008750/adventures-in-adaptive-reuse-a-former-dmv-office-near-city Citi Habitats said it is closing another one of its branches and laying off employees in a bid to cut costs in the sputtering economy. In addition to the closure of its... http://www.yourstreet.com/5008725/citi-habitats-also-to-close-57th-street-branch More on the Apthorp duel between Lev Leviev and Maurice Mann. [NY Post] New Yorkers could expect to pay $5 more per Con Ed bill starting in April. [NY Post] Major chains... http://www.yourstreet.com/5008626/the-round-up-thursday NEW YORK (AP) -- City Hall weddings in Manhattan used to be memorable for all the wrong reasons, so Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has given the marriage bureau a makeover with the... http://www.yourstreet.com/5007816/saying-i-do-with-style-glamour-in-city-hall Fired bus matron Linda Hockaday - accused of abandoning a cerebral-palsy patient overnight in a freezing vehicle - threw a tantrum outside a Manhattan courthouse yesterday,... http://www.yourstreet.com/5007855/bus-freeze-matron-goes-ballistic Manhattan Police yesterday were searching for this pistol-packing thief (right), who robbed three Upper West Side banks last month. In each case, the 6-foot-1, 190-pound suspect... http://www.yourstreet.com/5007876/nypd-daily-blotter A middle-aged woman plunged to her death yesterday after she apparently jumped out a 39th-floor window of the Empire State Building, police said. The 54-year-old Manhattan woman... http://www.yourstreet.com/5007856/empire-state-death-plunge If you lived in New Jersey and had a killing machine in Manhattan constantly publily threatening to wipe you out, would you do something about that threat? http://www.yourstreet.com/5006186/hamas-bloody-record-screams It took war, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and the collapse of some of New York's famed investment banks, but Manhattan apartment prices are finally... http://www.yourstreet.com/5006387/buyers-rejoice-manhattan-home-prices-finally-fall Manhattan CHELSEA $965,000 133 W. 22nd St. One-bedroom, one-bath condo, 760 square feet, with Bosch/Sub-Zero appliances, Kohler tub and laundry hookup; building features parking... http://www.yourstreet.com/5007883/just-sold How weak is the Manhattan rental market these days? Well, if things keep going the way they have been, you might want to slip your next rent check inside a sympathy card before... http://www.yourstreet.com/5007880/of-the-wall Ah, sweet 16 . . . million, that is. Trumpeted as "truly one of the most spectacular" penthouses in Manhattan, this never-lived-in 3,252-square-foot duplex condo atop the... http://www.yourstreet.com/5007885/upper-east-side Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,658 Common charges: $1,037 -- Located in a prewar building, this loft condo on West 36th Street was redesigned "from the ground up" in... http://www.yourstreet.com/5007881/hell-s-kitchen The winners of the Truscott Board-a-Match Teams at the Edgar Kaplan Winter Regional, played in Manhattan last month. http://www.yourstreet.com/5006458/bridge-part-1-of-an-experiment-ending-in-a-trump-coup NEW YORK — A debate has been raging in New York over the fact that Bernard Madoff remains free on bail, spending his days in his luxury Manhattan penthouse despite being accused... http://www.yourstreet.com/5007052/investors-want-madoff-jailed-now City officials are hoping that the new, 24,000-square-foot Manhattan Marriage Bureau will increase the number of couples who marry at the city clerk’s office. http://www.yourstreet.com/5004896/a-chapel-the-envy-of-las-vegas-maybe A debate has been raging in New York over the fact that Bernard Madoff remains free on bail, spending his days in his luxury Manhattan penthouse despite being accused of the... http://www.yourstreet.com/5004662/debate-rages-over-whether-madoff-should-be-in-jail When I was in New York last month I went inside the Rockefeller center for the first time and saw the famous Diego Rivera frescos that I read about in “Delirious New York”. They... http://www.yourstreet.com/5004609/relics There’s been a bit of chatter in the past few days, at least on a handful of blogs , about the future of the city’s seven-month rezoning approval process (the Uniform... http://www.yourstreet.com/5008627/developers-delight-a-warning-community-board-input-could-end There was a wild scene outside a Manhattan courthouse Wednesday as a woman accused of leaving a handicapped man on a bus overnight went before a judge. It happened while a grand... http://www.yourstreet.com/5004132/disabled-man-s-bus-matron-goes-before-judge Though its provenance was vague, it seems fair to assume that the milk and honey supped by the gods were local offerings; proven or not, every restaurant cropping up of late has... http://www.yourstreet.com/5003519/restaurant-of-the-week-buttermilk-channel "The real estate market is tanking like Fat Albert doing a cannonball off the Empire State Building, but some sellers are still in their own world. Ask a reasonable price, and a... http://www.yourstreet.com/5003806/comment-of-the-day-the-real-estate-market-is-tanking Will songs like the "Star Wars" theme song or "Chariots of Fire" -- which have been used as wedding processionals elsewhere -- grace Manhattan's new marriage bureau now that it... http://www.yourstreet.com/5003452/when-i-do-is-accompanied-by-ipod Citi Habitats has shuttered at least one of its numerous Manhattan offices. The rental brokerage has closed its storefront Financial District branch at 100 John Street between... http://www.yourstreet.com/5003359/citi-habitats-shutters-financial-district-office Residential real estate professionals expect low prices and declining sales to carry on through the year. In a discussion on the state of the 2009 market on a CNBC segment ,... http://www.yourstreet.com/5003356/residential-market-to-drag-feet-through-2009 A Manhattan judge says he intends to dismiss disorderly conduct charges filed against Sean Bell's fiancee who was arrested while protesting his fatal shooting by police officers... http://www.yourstreet.com/5003131/charge-against-sean-bell-s-fiancee-to-be-dismissed Developer Philips International has bought 110 East 40th Street, at Park Avenue, and is beginning to renovate the office building to create a commercial condominium called Grand... http://www.yourstreet.com/5002985/east-40th-street-getting-new-office-condo A Manhattan judge says he intends to dismiss disorderly conduct charges filed against Sean Bell's fiancee who was arrested while protesting his fatal shooting by police officers. http://www.yourstreet.com/5003005/charges-against-sean-bell-s-fiancee-to-be-dismissed Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing is Tuesday. In his State of the State speech, David Paterson spoke of hate crimes . Dan Jacoby observes the end of the very short... http://www.yourstreet.com/5004477/elsewhere-more-oddo-clinton-s-confirmation-quinn-on-taxes A middle-aged woman plunged to her death today after she apparently jumped out a 39th-floor window of the Empire State Building, police said. The 54-year-old Manhattan woman,... http://www.yourstreet.com/5003129/woman-jumps-from-empire-state-building A Manhattan judge says he intends to dismiss disorderly conduct charges filed against Sean Bell's fiancee who was arrested while protesting his fatal shooting by police officers... http://www.yourstreet.com/5002891/judge-to-dismiss-charge-against-sean-bell-s-fiance A Manhattan judge says he intends to dismiss disorderly conduct charges filed against Sean Bell's fiance who was arrested while protesting his fatal shooting by police officers. http://www.yourstreet.com/5002957/charge-against-sean-bell-s-fiancee-to-be-dismissed The community activist group Soho Alliance said it plans to challenge the transient hotel status of Trump Soho, at 246 Spring Street, by taking its fight to the New York State... http://www.yourstreet.com/5002981/soho-alliance-continues-to-fight-trump-soho After yesterday's drama regarding the location of The City star Whitney Port's Gramercyish apartment—conclusion: shacking up at Third Avenue rental building The Elektra while... http://www.yourstreet.com/5003025/the-city-bombshell-erin-ain-t-urban-she-s-in-mcstarck Nine high-profile New York City apartment portfolios comprised of 188 buildings, with mostly rent-stabilized tenants, do not generate enough revenue to cover their monthly loan... http://www.yourstreet.com/5002455/financial-woes-plague-multi-family-portfolios Five City Council candidates filed petitions with the city Board of Elections to appear on the ballot for the special elections taking place on February 24. Since special... http://www.yourstreet.com/5004009/special-election-candidates-make-their-own-parties-experience-now About 33 percent of the properties listed for sale in Manhattan saw price cuts in the fourth quarter, according to Streeteasy.com. The Manhattan neighborhoods that saw the most... http://www.yourstreet.com/5002045/manhattan-nabes-see-sizable-price-cuts Two popular free lecture series are set to resume this month, and both get guests into a few architecturally interesting spaces downtown. Access Restricted , organized by the... http://www.yourstreet.com/5002449/inside-wall-street-s-financial-temples-for-free Queens scored first and second place in the race to claim the first babies born in New York City in 2009. The first Baby New Year, Grace Pak, arrived at New York Hospital Queens... http://www.yourstreet.com/5001579/queens-scores-twice-in-first-baby-race By Michael Gill Measha Brueggergosman is going to be spending a lot of time with the Cleveland Orchestra in the next month: first at Severance Hall to sing Wagner's Wesendonck... http://www.yourstreet.com/5001378/arts-calendar-club-girl-canadian-soprano-with-the-cleveland-orchestra A: With Q4 in the books, we are getting the first glimpses of what happened to our marketplace in the period after the fall of Lehman and the gov't rescue of AIG. However, use... http://www.yourstreet.com/5001230/manhattan-inventory-stagnates-for-now The price per square foot of commercial space is difficult to determine because there haven't been many large transactions during the downturn, but some anonymous brokers have... http://www.yourstreet.com/5000967/little-commercial-activity-makes-pricing-difficult The crystal ball atop New York’s Times Square has dropped and champagne classes nationwide have been clinked, signaling the arrival of 2009. http://www.yourstreet.com/5000232/officials-ring-in-09-with-goals-resolutions Frank Bruni starts a health-conscious new year at Rouge Tomate , but doesn't truly enjoy it. While there are "intricately, gorgeously assembled dishes," "[t]oo much of the food... http://www.yourstreet.com/5000375/rouge-tomate-too-bland-for-bruni-cuozzo-welcomes-kefi Video of the removal of the Astroland Coney Island Rocket filmed by MagicalThemeParks . Hot dog vendor pays $362,201 for prime Met Museum street location (Post) In what may be... http://www.yourstreet.com/5000378/more-ny-astroland-rocket-burgers-hot-dogs-obama Who says the commercial real estate market is tanking? The Park Department has sold vending rights for the north-side entrance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fifth Avenue... http://www.yourstreet.com/5000472/diamond-dogs-who-says-the-commercial-real-estate Sonja Kohn, the feisty redheaded 60-year-old behind Austria's Bank Medici, scored around $2 billion for Bernie Madoff in Europe. Now, she's reportedly so terrified of the... http://www.yourstreet.com/5000561/madoff-s-woman-in-austria-goes-into-hiding