Peabody Award winner Geraldo Rivera and wife Erica Levy Rivera have purchased a New York condo unit for $5.6 million, reports the New York Post, citing property records.

The 2,500-square-foot apartment's original asking price was almost $6.3 million, but the couple managed to save nearly $700,000 from the actual sale of the Manhattan condominium, adds the news site.

Located on a higher floor, the unit boasts clear views of Central Park and the Reservoir. It will be a comfortable place to stay for Rivera and his wife because it has four bedrooms and three bathrooms. It also has a kitchen with a view, an in-unit laundry room, and a dining area that also provides city views.

The building also offers amenities, such as a rooftop indoor pool, gym, party room, playroom, bike room, garage and emergency cold storage room for groceries.

Photos of the Manhattan home can be viewed on 6sqft.com. According to the site, the unit, which has a master bedroom that showcases a lovely vanity, an "entire wall of closets" and Central Park views, is actually the couple's second purchase in the same building. In 2011, the couple bought a separate unit, located a few floors below their most recent purchase, for $3.4 million.

'Proud Puerto Rican ... proud American'

Aside from being a world-renowned journalist, ABC News reports that Rivera also penned a book, "His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S."

An unedited portion of Rivera's book, published on the news site, reads:

"Right now in America, the group being singled out for the most destructive negative emotion is Hispanic immigrants, both legal, families who have been in the country for generations; and illegal, people who may have crossed over the border yesterday. All this destructive hostility is the manifestation of what is now a national panic. Despite this hate, I can say that as a proud Puerto Rican, I am proud to be an American."

As Barnes & Noble explained, the book is an "account of the Hispanic population's growth and the changing face of America" which was written by Rivera as a product of deep thinking after the "infamous confrontation with Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor."

It was noted that Rivera pondered on "what makes the issue of illegal Hispanic immigration so complex." Barnes & Noble sees the book as a "vital contribution to the debate" and is "destined to reshape the way Americans view the future of this country."