The city's subway are getting dirtier, according to a straphangers' advocacy group.

President Barack Obama placed a wreath at the Ground Zero in solemn remembrance of victims of September 11 on Thursday after meeting with emergency workers during a visit to New York City to mark the death of Osama bin Laden. SEE PHOTOS.

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The federal government will begin considering September 11 health claims this fall.

The drivers group Taxi Workers Alliance is petitioning the city for a 15 percent fare increase seven years after the last across-the-board fare hike.

The city's local parent elections are so botched that the Department of Education should suspend them, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said.

At some city hospitals women have to wait weeks to get a mammogram.

A high-ranking New York City schools administrator has been tapped to take over as schools superintendent for Newark, New Jersey.

After one week of deliberations in the largest insider trading case related to hedge funds in history, jurors will restart.

A major New York City construction company is charged with defrauding its clients — including The Economist magazine — out of more than $30 million over the past decade.

President Barack Obama will attend a wreath-laying ceremony at Ground Zero today and meet with families of September 11 victims and first responders during his visit.

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New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market will take a peek inside a different specialty store and showcase the city's purists who have made an art out of selling one commodity.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg awarded Nissan a 10-year, $1 billion contract on Tuesday to produce the city's future yellow cabs — but some officials are already trying to put the brakes on production.

The teachers union went back to court Tuesday over whether the media can obtain the ratings of thousands of elementary and middle school teachers. The union claims these Teacher Data Reports should not be shared with the public, and that releasing them with the names of teachers would violate privacy rights.

Residents of Little Pakistan, in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, said they were surprised to hear that America's No. 1 enemy had been captured in Abbottabad. But even with all the scrutiny that their homeland’s government might face, they said bin Laden’s end could only bring positive things for New York’s Pakistanis.

The NYPD's heightened security following the death of Osama bin Laden will remain in place at least through President Barack Obama's visit to the World Trade Center site on Thursday. 

The World Trade Center was flooded with visitors who left behind tributes to those killed on September 11, 2001, following the announcement earlier this week that Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan.

Nissan has won New York City's Taxi of Tomorrow competition -- and already there are calls for an investigation of a conflict of interest in the contract-letting.To read the whole story, visit Transportation Nation.