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2009 was the year of the falling Manhattan real estate market. The sales price of a typical Manhattan apartment was 810-thousand dollars by the end of last year, down more than 20 percent from the housing market's peak in mid 2008, according to New York appraisal firm Miller Samuel. WNYC's ...

A security officer at Newark Airport has been reassigned after a security breach at the airport this weekend. On Sunday, a man walked the wrong way through a security checkpoint at Newark grounding flights for hours. Surveillance video shows the man entered through an exit, but he left the terminal ...

Converts to Islam and other Muslims gathered in midtown this weekend for the first annual Winter Dowra.

REPORTER: The three-day immersion in Muslim theology and jurisprudence was aimed at those who may have been raised as Catholics or Hindus but who turned to Islam in recent years. One of the instructors, ...

New York is encouraging school districts to sign a plan this week that could help the state win hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education funding. WNYC's Beth Fertig reports.

REPORTER: The "Race to the Top" program has states competing for funds, based on their proposed education reforms. New York ...

The Jets take on the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday night in the last game ever at Giants Stadium. As WNYC's Isaac-Davy Aronson reports, there'll be pageantry, but no booze for sale.

REPORTER: A Jets spokesman says given the late start of the game - twenty past eight - and the fact that ...

US Senator Charles Schumer says airlines based in the United States should threaten to stop flying to airports with lax security. The New York Democrat says the foiled terrorist attack on Christmas Day shows that airport security is appallingly lax. Schumer wrote to the heads of major airlines on Sunday ...

Mayor Bloomberg is promising to shake things up as he starts a third term in office.

BLOOMBERG: Conventional wisdom holds that in a third term, mayors run out of energy and ideas. But we've proven conventional wisdom wrong time and time again, and I promise you, we will do it one ...

Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. He was 89. The cause of death is not yet known.

The Texas-born Sutton moved to New York City following his service with the Tuskegee ...

The attempted attack on an international flight heading into Detroit has travelers in New York thinking about security measures.

REPORTER: Carole Galante was at Newark Liberty International Airport Christmas Day for a flight to Ireland. She said she's not surprised a man could get through security with an explosive device that ...

People around the New York area spent Sunday digging out after the first big snowstorm of the season, which dropped about a foot of snow in the city, and nearly double that on parts of Long Island and in areas of New Jersey, and led to the cancellation of hundreds ...

Three accused al-Qaida associates charged with plotting to ferry drugs in Africa to raise money for terror attacks have been ordered held without bail in New York. Oumar Issa, Harouna Toure, and Idriss Abelrahman appeared Friday in federal court in Manhattan. The men didn't enter pleas. They were arrested earlier ...

The city's Sanitation Department says it's ready for a lot of snow. Deputy Commissioner Vito Turso says since the summer, salt stockpiles and plow trucks have been equipped for the winter weather.

TURSO: right now our weather forecasting services are telling us that we could be looking at a very very ...

Workers who clean Broadway theatres have a new 3-year tentative contract.

REPORTER: The deal averts an unwelcome strike during the booming holiday season. The cleaners, porters and matrons are set to get an increased contribution to their pension fund and a six-percent raise. In addition, Hector Figueroa, treasurer of Union 32 ...

The city's Department of Homeless Services plans to temporarily cover rent for about 1800 families who lost their Section 8 housing vouchers.

REPORTER: Yesterday, the city's Housing Authority acknowledged it revoked the vouchers, citing a shortfall in federal funds. Homeless Services Commissioner Rob Hess says the city is trying to prevent ...

The MTA board has approved an austerity plan to close a nearly $400-million funding gap by eliminating the W and Z subway lines, and more than 20 bus routes.

Mayor Bloomberg says it probably won't be the last doomsday budget for the state-run transit agency. He says it needs to find ...

As Yogi Berra would have said, it's deja vu all over again. Just seven months ago state lawmakers said they had rescued the MTA from a crippling deficit and riders from steep fare hikes and severe service cuts. But Dale Hemmerdinger, who was MTA chairman at the time, warned reporters ...

The City Council is poised to override Mayor Bloomberg's veto of a bill that would allow motorists a five minute grace period before a parking ticket is issued.

REPORTER: The mayor nixed the bill last week, saying it would create confusion between drivers and traffic enforcement agents. The council's Transportation Committee ...

A machine pistol used by a street peddler and aspiring rapper shot dead in a Times Square gunfight was purchased from a Virginia gun shop by a woman who reported it stolen 10 days after she bought it, police say. Raymond Martinez, who wrote songs about staring down cops in ...

With supplies high and demand low, officials are making the swine flu vaccine available to ALL New Yorkers. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

REPORTER: Previously, the vaccine was only available for people in priority groups, such as pregnant women, caregivers of newborns and people with chronic health problems. The state Health ...

A new law mandating bike access to office buildings goes into effect today, but there's a catch. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports.

REPORTER: The city's planning commission says biggest obstacle to increasing bike commuting is limited access to safe bike parking. The new law will begin to change that. Under the law, ...