Bronx | 305 East 140th Street, No. 5A

Mott Haven Loft

$1.35 million

A two-bedroom, one-bath, 1,981-square-foot condo with an open floor plan, bamboo and granite countertops, a den/home office, original hardwood floors and a basement storage cage. The unit is on the top floor of a five-story former factory from 1901 that has a virtual intercom, a super, shared laundry and a bike room. Tano Holmes and Victor Banks, Century 21; century21.com

Costs

Common charges: $1,456 a month

Taxes: $9,240 a year

Pro

In-unit washer/dryers are permitted and an area near the kitchen can accommodate a laundry room or second bathroom. The ceilings reach 12 feet. The building is eco-friendly and has solar panels to reduce electricity costs.

Cons

It’s a big space to cool with window unit air-conditioning.

Manhattan | 467 Central Park West, No. 12F

Manhattan Valley Condo

$1.75 million

A two-bedroom, two-bath, 1,152-square-foot apartment that has a windowed kitchen with a pass-through to a breakfast bar, an open floor plan, a primary suite, a second bedroom with a walk-in closet, a windowed bath, built-ins, a decorative fireplace and wide-plank oak floors. It’s on the 12th floor of a 17-story prewar doorman building that has a live-in superintendent, a bike room, shared laundry and a waiting list for extra storage. Jed Lewin, The Agency; theagencyre.com

Costs

Common charges: $1,350 a month

Taxes: $1,098 a month

Assessment: $374 a month through January 2028, for updates to the building’s exterior

Pros

The kitchen has two windows, a six-burner range and ample counter space. The view includes Central Park and Billionaire’s Row.

Cons

In-unit washer/dryers are not permitted.

Manhattan | 146 E 49th Street, No. 2B

Turtle Bay Co-op

$715,000

A two-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 940-square-foot apartment that has a windowed eat-in kitchen, an open living/dining area, a windowed bathroom and original hardwood floors. It’s on the second floor of a 10-story building by Emory Roth with a live-in super and shared laundry. Laura Cook and Adam Wolfe, Keller Williams NYC; kwnyc.com

Costs

Maintenance: $2,583 a month

Pros

Use as a pied-à-terre, subletting after two years of residency and an in-unit washer/dryer are permitted with board approval.

Cons

The view consists of only nearby buildings. The second bedroom does not have a closet. The building lacks a bike room and there’s a waiting list for basement storage cages.

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With a half-dozen wooden art shipping crates laden with a smorgasbord of ancient artifacts as a backdrop, Italian and American officials on Wednesday celebrated the continuation of a 25-year collaboration that has returned thousands of illegally trafficked objects to Italy.

“The United States is, in every respect, Italy’s closest ally in the fight against the illicit trafficking of cultural property,” Italy’s culture minister, Alessandro Giuli, said at an event staged to recognize the return to Italy of trafficked objects and stolen artworks recovered from American museums, auction houses and private galleries over the past year.

The artifacts, which included Etruscan vases, Roman-era bronze and marble statues and busts, but also Byzantine coins and a 13th-century manuscript page, were identified after investigations by Italy’s art theft police in collaboration with different U.S. agencies, among them the Manhattan district attorney’s office, the F.B.I. and Homeland Security Investigations.

“Our two governments are well aware that theft, illegal excavations, and illicit exportation are crimes committed against the public good,” and both countries are “committed to combating this threat to the world’s cultural heritage in increasingly innovative, and effective ways,” Mr. Giuli added.

The photo-op camaraderie came at an especially low moment in U.S.-Italy relations. Earlier this month, after President Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni got a Trumpian tongue-lashing for having jumped to the pope’s defense.

Ms. Meloni said last week that she hadn’t spoken to Mr. Trump since their spat, but she expressed her support to the president after a gunman attempted to attack him over the weekend.

The at-times rocky relationship between art-rich Italy and art-hungry American museums and collectors was encumbered for decades by judicial investigations and court cases that often ended with a begrudging restitution of artifacts. Many cases remain open, like Italy’s claims on a bronze statue at the J. Paul Getty Museum in California.

In 2000, the two countries reached a cultural property agreement regarding importation restrictions that “has become a cornerstone of international efforts to combat the illicit trafficking of cultural property,” Italian officials said earlier this year at a commemorative event for the agreement.

Patty Gerstenblith, the director of the Center for Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law at DePaul University, said in an interview that the agreement has “been very effective in efforts by U.S. law enforcement in preventing undocumented antiquities from entering the U.S., returning these, and as a training tool for law enforcement.”

She added that it has also been useful in establishing a framework of cooperation between the two countries in cultural heritage, and encouraging loans to U.S. museums.

The agreement, renewed last December, covers import restrictions and only federal agencies can enforce it. In recent years, the Manhattan district attorney’s office in New York, though not a participant in the agreement, has taken center stage in multiple high-profile restitutions to Italy.

According to its own records, since its creation in 2017, its Antiquities Trafficking Unit has recovered more than 6,200 antiquities valued at more than $485 million, and has returned more than 5,860 to 36 countries.

The trove of nearly 340 artifacts returned on Wednesday showed the scope of the collaboration with American agencies.

Each object is the protagonist of its own nefarious back story.

The most prized piece, investigators said, was a marble head of Alexander the Great that was stolen from a Rome museum in 1960. It “was acquired in good faith” by Alan Safani of the Safani Gallery in 2017, according to a statement by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, but was seized by that office a year later. The gallery opposed the restitution and instituted a judicial process before a federal court of New York, which ruled in Italy’s favor last year.

“Protecting cultural heritage strengthens the rule of law and builds trust between governments and people,” Tilman J. Fertitta, the American ambassador to Rome, said at the ceremony. “When stolen art returns, both nations benefit. Italy regains its history, and the United States reaffirms its commitment to justice and cultural preservation.”

Also back is a first-century bronze winged satyr identified a year ago in an auction catalog, 50 years after the work had been stolen from archaeological deposits at the Herculaneum excavations.

For their part, Homeland Security Investigations assisted Italy in recovering 15 gold coins dating to the Byzantine era, part of a theft in 2009 in which 388 gold coins were stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Parma. They were tracked down in various specialized auctions.

The F.B.I. recovered from Los Angeles dozens of ancient artifacts in bronze, clay and marble that one investigator identified as having belonged to Jerome Eisenberg, an antiquities dealer who died in 2022. Investigations ascertained “their origin from clandestine excavations of Magna Graecia necropolises carried out in central-southern Italy, with the consequent illicit export to the United States,” the Italian authorities said in a statement.

More than 20 of the pieces focused on at the ceremony had been seized from the Metropolitan Museum in New York by the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Nine of the artifacts from the Met were part of a restitution announced in March that also included six rare books stolen from a Jesuit archive in Rome that had been appraised at $400,000.

The Met objects included two Greek ceramic drinking cups from about 500 B.C., a pair of Roman silver drinking cups from around the first century and a pair of gold earrings from the fifth century B.C.

In a statement this year, the Met said it had an “ongoing commitment to responsible collections stewardship.”

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, has built his campaign for a New York City House seat around turning the page on the Democrats’ old guard.

Yet when he debuts his first paid advertisement on Wednesday, the 33-year-old candidate has chosen his party’s oldest living leader, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, to do the talking.

The choice reflects the unique challenge Mr. Schlossberg faces ahead of a marquee June primary against more seasoned rivals. He may have star power and youth, but he is still trying to persuade aging voters who form the Democratic base that he is serious and experienced enough to represent a storied Manhattan district — home to corporate chieftains, media empires and cultural meccas.

The 30-second ad, which was shared first with The New York Times, uses Ms. Pelosi, a former House speaker, to make his case. In it, the congresswoman, 86, speaks directly to the camera to say that Mr. Schlossberg has “a deep sense of duty” and the kind of energy that could help propel Democrats back to power nationally.

“This moment calls for leaders who understand the stakes and how to deliver for the people they serve,” she says, sometimes over clips of him campaigning. “Jack Schlossberg is that kind of leader.”

Mr. Schlossberg is among the first candidates in New York’s 12th District to start spending on paid media. But a handful of super PACs funded by competing A.I. companies and former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg have already burned through millions of dollars trying to sway voters toward or away from his rivals.

Mr. Schlossberg’s outlay will be relatively modest in comparison. The campaign said it would initially spend $70,000 on digital platforms, and eventually add more digital spending and $250,000 in broadcast TV time — a relatively small sum in the nation’s most expensive media market.

Mr. Schlossberg, who has reported inherited assets between $10 million and $32 million, said he would not be spending any of his own money in the race. He does not have a super PAC behind him.

While there has been no real public polling to date, private polls released by several of Mr. Schlossberg’s rivals have all narrowly put him in the lead.

With two months left until Primary Day, two state assemblymen — Alex Bores and Micah Lasher — are not far behind; followed by George Conway, a former Republican turned high-profile antagonist of President Trump, and Nina Schwalbe, a public health expert. Because the seat is safely Democratic, the primary winner will almost certainly win the general election to replace Representative Jerrold Nadler, who is retiring.

Mr. Schlossberg, earlier known for a head-turning social media presence, has largely tried to portray his opponents as old-fashioned, risk-averse establishment figures who have not been able to check Mr. Trump. They, in turn, have raised doubts about the thinness of his résumé, which includes no long-term traditional work experience, elected or otherwise.

In an interview, Mr. Schlossberg said it was an obvious choice to turn to Ms. Pelosi, who is perhaps her party’s most respected elder stateswoman.

“Speaker Pelosi is the backbone of our party,” he said. “She most importantly understands better than anyone how the House of Representatives works and what the Democratic Party needs right now.”

Yet embracing Ms. Pelosi may also have its costs, complicating Mr. Schlossberg’s attempts to position himself as an outsider and a fresh face by reminding voters of his family’s deep ties to the Democratic establishment.

Mr. Schlossberg said he believes he first met Ms. Pelosi when he was in high school. Alongside his family, he presented her with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2019.

The candidate said Ms. Pelosi asked to meet with him in her Washington office before she endorsed his campaign in February.

“I printed out all my plans I have for the district and the country,” he said. “She read them over and quizzed me.”

An earlier version of the ad shared with The Times included footage of Mr. Schlossberg and Ms. Pelosi spending time with his mother, the former ambassador Caroline Kennedy, and his niece, the daughter of his sister Tatiana Schlossberg. (Ms. Schlossberg, who was an environmental journalist, died in December after a fight with blood cancer that she chronicled in a widely read essay.) That footage was cut from the final ad before it was distributed.

In the interview, Mr. Schlossberg said he exempted Ms. Pelosi from his critique of this party’s aging officials — and argued voters would, too.

“I put her in a category of her own,” he said. “She has magic that doesn’t age. It wins.”