Week in Pictures for Nov. 29

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Here is a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include autumn leaves, the first book printed in the new world, and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

This weekend on “The New York Times Close Up,” an inside look at the most compelling articles in Sunday’s Times, Sam Roberts will speak with The Times’s A.O. Scott and Clyde Haberman. Also, Nathan Leventhal, a former deputy mayor. Tune in at 10 p.m. Saturday or 10 a.m. Sunday on NY1 News to watch.

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Big Ticket | Outdoor Living, in NoHo for $23 Million

A statement-making condominium that monopolizes the eighth floor at 40 Bond Street, the 11-story emerald-green-glass apparition that brought a dash of Oz downtown to NoHo in 2007, sold for $23.5 million and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.

The most recent asking price was $25 million after a trim from $27 million, and the monthly carrying costs are $14,255. The luxury complex, which was developed by the hotelier Ian Schrager and designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, has 27 apartments and five townhouses at street level. At the ever-luminescent 40 Bond, even the external structural elements are coated with molten glass. (Mr. Schrager kept the 8,500-square-foot triplex penthouse for himself.)

The loft-style 12-room, 5,364-square-foot unit, No. 8A, on a quaint cobblestone and cast-iron block off the Bowery, has four bedrooms, four baths, and a grand 140-foot-long south-facing terrace that runs the length of the residence. Every principal room has access to the terrace, which is 20 feet deep and was designed by the landscape architect Jeff Mendoza to offer total privacy. Inside, the equally striking interiors by David Mann have floor-to-ceiling windows, wide-plank floors, north-and-south exposures, and 11-foot ceilings throughout.

The chef’s kitchen is clad in smoked Austrian oak with glacier-white custom Corian counters and lacquer cabinetry. There are two fireplaces, one in the living room and the other in the elaborate master suite overlooking the terrace. The suite has a windowed dressing room and his-and-hers offices, and its master bath is wrapped in custom Corian in the same pattern used on the unusual 22-foot-high sculptural gate that shields the five townhouse gardens from the street. A separate wing contains the loft’s three other bedrooms, each with an en-suite bath.

The apartment was bought as a sponsor unit for $17.9 million in 2007 by William Kriegel, the energy magnate, motorcycle enthusiast and Montana rancher (he owns a training facility for quarter horses) who is the chairman of the K Road Acquisition Corporation, formerly Sithe Energies. Mr. Kriegel built his fortune in renewable energy companies in his native France before relocating in 1984 to the United States, where he repeated his entrepreneurial success. Before “downsizing” to the Bond Street apartment, he developed and owned the 7,452-square-foot duplex penthouse at 158 Mercer Street, which he sold to the musician Jon Bon Jovi for $27 million in 2007. That penthouse is currently on the market for $39.9 million.

Mr. Kriegel was represented in the sale by Leonard Steinberg and Hervé Senequier of Douglas Elliman Real Estate; the team also handled the negotiations for the anonymous buyer, who used a limited-liability company, MINM. Mr. Steinberg, citing confidentiality agreements, declined to elaborate.

The week’s second-costliest transaction involved a six-story Beaux-Arts limestone townhouse on the Upper East Side that sold for $18.5 million. The 19-room residence at 131 East 64th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, was built in 1904 by Augustus N. Allen but was recently renovated on both the interior, where the finishes are ultramodern, and the exterior, where a restoration retained front bay windows and the decorative copper anthemion on the roof. The house has northern, southern and eastern exposures; a rooftop gym; a wine cellar; and an indoor pool and spa. In addition to eight bedrooms, it has 11 baths, an elevator, and 1,150 square feet of outdoor space divided among a pair of terraces and a roof garden.

The social spaces, connected by a sweeping staircase, include a music hall, a library and a sitting room, and the ceilings on the parlor floor, home to the dining and living rooms and the kitchen, soar to 12 feet. The fourth-floor master bedroom suite has his-and-her baths and dressing rooms. The upper floors contain four more guest bedrooms with en-suite baths, a playroom, a family room and a staff suite.

Carrie Chiang and Richard Phan of the Corcoran Group represented the seller, David Seldin, a former team president of the National Football League’s Jacksonville Jaguars, who had owned the house since 2004. He used a limited-liability company, 64th Street Associates, with a Florida address, in the sale. The buyer opted for anonymity through a limited-liability company, TH 64. Ms. Chiang declined to comment on the particulars of the sale.

Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, this week ending Tuesday.

The New York Collective

Dear Diary:

It is what tourists pass down in legend and suburbanites fear. The ineffable personality of New Yorkers cannot be handled lightly, as it is too complicated to be forced in one direction.

There is something that makes New Yorkers speed walk down the street, unaware of whom they may hit in a sharp swerve of their leather briefcases, or clear their throats when someone is talking to the post office teller for longer than a minute. Is it the pipes, the same culprit for our superior bagels? Whatever it is, the trait was showcased this past week and saved my dog’s life.

At 76th and York, a stray pit bull attacked our golden retriever. The all-too-clichéd evil preying on pure gold. As soon as the attack began, New Yorkers ran over to help, eventually freeing my dog of the aggressor. One man in particular carried the bleeding 80-pound victim to his car, where he then drove him and my mother to the animal hospital.

This assertiveness, this feeling of justification at every jaywalking crime scene, is our spirit. It feeds our reputation as a population and makes the city the strongest and most unique in the world. But most importantly, it makes us one.

Read all recent entries and our updated submissions guidelines. Reach us via email diary@nytimes.com or follow @NYTMetro on Twitter using the hashtag #MetDiary.

The New York Collective

Dear Diary:

It is what tourists pass down in legend and suburbanites fear. The ineffable personality of New Yorkers cannot be handled lightly, as it is too complicated to be forced in one direction.

There is something that makes New Yorkers speed walk down the street, unaware of whom they may hit in a sharp swerve of their leather briefcases, or clear their throats when someone is talking to the post office teller for longer than a minute. Is it the pipes, the same culprit for our superior bagels? Whatever it is, the trait was showcased this past week and saved my dog’s life.

At 76th and York, a stray pit bull attacked our golden retriever. The all-too-clichéd evil preying on pure gold. As soon as the attack began, New Yorkers ran over to help, eventually freeing my dog of the aggressor. One man in particular carried the bleeding 80-pound victim to his car, where he then drove him and my mother to the animal hospital.

This assertiveness, this feeling of justification at every jaywalking crime scene, is our spirit. It feeds our reputation as a population and makes the city the strongest and most unique in the world. But most importantly, it makes us one.

Read all recent entries and our updated submissions guidelines. Reach us via email diary@nytimes.com or follow @NYTMetro on Twitter using the hashtag #MetDiary.

New York Today: Beware of Parking Tickets

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times You may have the day off, but the meter police do not.

Good morning on this Black Friday. We hope that your turkey (or Tofurkey) is digesting well on what is expected to be a mostly sunny day.

Here’s a hot money-saving tip as you do your shopping:

Remember the meter.

The Black Friday parking ticket is a longstanding - and highly aggravating â€" seasonal tradition.

“It looks like a holiday, smells like a holiday, but it’s not a holiday according to New York City parking rules,” said Samuel I. Schwartz, the former traffic commissioner known as Gridlock Sam.

Alternate-side regulations remain in effect, too.

Some years, Black Friday is the most-ticketed day of the year.

Mr. Schwartz recalled one with 45,000 tickets, compared to the daily average of 25,000.

“Every traffic agent had their pencils sharpened,” he said. “We were an army going out there and bringing back our prey.”

Last year, Councilman David G. Greenfield, a Brooklyn Democrat, introduced a bill to make Black Friday a day of rest for parking enforcement.

“You’re in a line for an hour to get a discount on a television, and you come outside and there’s a $115 ticket on your car,” Mr. Greenfield told us. “That’s not a very fun way to spend to your Thanksgiving.”

His bill went nowhere.

Here’s what else you need to know for Friday and the weekend.

WEATHER

Not black. Clouds part to let the sun shine in, but it will be chilly again, with a high of 41.

Tonight will be cold and clear, revealing the moon â€" a waning crescent.

The weekend looks muddled. Starting bright, it may turn cloudy, with rain possible on Saturday night and Sunday.

COMMUTE

Subways: No delays. Check latest status.

Rails: Running smoothly. Check L.I.R.R., Metro-North or New Jersey Transit status.

Roads: No major problems. Check traffic map or radio report on the 1s.

As noted above, alternate-side parking is very much in effect.

COMING UP TODAY

- Walk it off with the After Thanksgiving Hike on Staten Island. 10 a.m. to noon. [Free, registration required]

- Behold the world’s largest gingerbread exhibit, with 164 structures, at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. [$11]

- Peer into the Neapolitan Nativity Scene, with more than 200 18th-century figures, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [$25 suggested admission]

- Kids can skate in their socks at The Grinch’s Holiday Workshop at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. [$11]

- Make holiday puppets at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, which will also be screening a tribute to the Muppet Rowlf the Dog.  Through Sunday: 1 p.m. film screening, 1:15 and 2:30 p.m. puppet workshop. [$12, plus a materials fee]

- The South Street Seaport opens its rink, and lights its tree at 6 p.m. [The tree is free; the rink is $10 and free for kids]

- The New York African Diaspora International Film Festival kicks off with “Chasing Shakespeare,” starring Danny Glover. 7 p.m. at Symphony Space. [$25, buy tickets here]

- For more events, see The New York Times Arts & Entertainment guide.

THE WEEKEND

Saturday

- WOTT: That stands for Walk Off The Turkey, a 12-mile walk along the Hudson Shoreline. 10 a.m. [Free, bring lunch]

- A walking tour of Mark Twain-related spots in Lower Manhattan on what would be the writer’s 178th birthday. 10 a.m. [$20]

- Local authors become booksellers in Brooklyn on  Small Business Saturday, part of a national effort to save independent bookstores.

- The Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg move into a new winter digs in Williamsburg.

- Designer clothes and accessories made in the five boroughs go on sale in â€" you guessed it -  Brooklyn. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. [Free]

- Meet more makers, these from Staten Island, at the Juried Holiday Craft Fair. 11 to 5 p.m. [Free]

Sunday

- The Hanukkah Walking Tour starts on the Lower East Side at 10:45 a.m. You finish with doughnuts, a tradition for the holiday. [$20 in advance; $22 on the street]

- For a very quiet Sunday, head to the Brooklyn Public Library: the 1927 silent film, “Kid Brother,” a male Cinderella tale, screens at 1 p.m. With live piano. [Free]

- Meet the Dutch inventor of the Water Bench, an urban bench that collects rainwater, and learn more about rainwater harvesting, at the Guggenheim Museum. 6:30 p.m. [$7, free for students who RSVP]

- Last chance to see works inspired by Grand Central Terminal at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. [$7]

Weekend Travel Hassles: Check subway disruptions or list of street closings.

AND FINALLY…

Wherever people were working on Thanksgiving night, they often had one thing in common: They were not eating turkey.

A police detective: penne alla vodka and chicken parmesan, ordered in.

A worker at Grand Central Terminal customer service: peanut butter and jelly for lunch. Chinese leftovers for dinner.

He said he had not had a Thanksgiving meal in 25 years. It no longer bothered him.

Jonathan Henry, 22, who was answering emergency calls at the Animal Medical Center on the Upper East Side, was newer to the holiday shift.

His family was back in Chicago, enjoying a home-cooked meal together.

He’d ordered Domino’s.

“It has not been easy,” he said.

Joseph Burgess contributed reporting.

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