The wait appears to be over. Groundbreaking on the World Trade Center memorial takes place this Monday. The memorial is due to be completed by 2009. WNYC's Arun Venugopal looks into the politics that have surrounded - and still surround the memorial - as well as the vision behind it.

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The African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan has achieved National Monument status. WNYC's Arun Venugopal attended today's ceremony.

REPORTER: The ceremony was both a celebration, and in a sense, a wake for 400-plus free and enslaved Africans. Their remains lie under a small plot of land near Federal Plaza and will ...

Tomorrow special elections will be held in six assembly districts around the state. Three of those districts are within the five boroughs. One of those races is taking place on the Upper West Side, in the 67th district.

That's for a seat recently vacated by Scott Stringer, who became the Manhattan ...

Four editorial staffers at the New York Press have resigned in protest. Their decision came after the free weekly paper decided against publishing some of the controversial Danish cartoons that depict the prophet Muhammad. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more.

REPORTER: The New York Press would not have been the first paper ...

The Real Estate Board of New York's first report on residental sales in 19 Brooklyn neighborhoods was met with the occasional whoop of joy from an audience of realtors.

Between 2004 and 2005, the median price of a condo or co-op went up by 38 percent. DUMBO led all neighborhoods, at ...

We are midway through the 15-day Chinese New Year, which is being celebrated across the city. WNYC's Arun Venugopal took the opportunity to celebrate the festival with those who know it best.

It’s the first day of the Chinese New Year and Patrick Kwan is expecting a little cash.

PATRICK: ...

The City Council has approved a proposal for the Gateway Center at Bronx Terminal Market. The $400 million mall is one of Mayor Bloomberg's signature economic development projects. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more.

The City Council's approval means that the project is just one step away from becoming a reality. It ...

HIV testing, detox treatment and programs meant to stop cigarette smoking will soon be featured at city homeless shelters, as part of an effort to bring better treatment to the people sleeping there. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more.

REPORTER: The changes come in the wake of a report, issued by the ...

A new report from the Coalition for the Homeless says a city program meant to move families out of shelters and into apartments is fundamentally flawed. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more.

The city's program, known as Housing Stability Plus, provides a rent subsidy that is paid to landlords. However, the subsidy ...

Governor Pataki says he wants taxpayers to fund a cultural building at Ground Zero. WNYC's Arun Venugopal reports.

The governor has proposed spending $80 million for the Snohetta building, which was originally meant to house the Freedom Center and Drawing Center. But will now be used as a visitors center and ...

The Department of Homeland Security is changing the way federal terrorism funds will be distributed. WNYC's Arun Venugopal reports.

REPORTER: Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff says cities will be held to a more rigorous standard when they ask for money from the department's Urban Areas Security Initiative. That's the money specifically ...

Last night, five days after ending a citywide transit strike, the executive board of the transit workers union overwhelmingly approved a contract that will soon go to the union's general body for a vote. WNYC's Arun Venugopal reports.

A visibly exhausted but relieved Roger Toussaint, the union president, said the contract ...

City and county officials have offered back-up plans in the event of a transit strike. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more.

Besides encouraging commuters to find friends in Manhattan they can stay with, city officials are suggesting commuters car pool or work from home. Police will enforce a four-passenger rule for any ...

NYU contends the worst of the graduate assistant strike is behind it. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more.

REPORTER: According to NYU at least three-quarters of its graduate assistants returned to work as of Wednesday. But it's not clear how the university arrived at this figure because many faculty are refusing to ...

A federal judge ruled today that New York's subway bag searches are constitutional. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more.

Judge Richard Berman found the searches were not overly intrusive. He also agreed with the city's contention that the threat of a subway bombing was real and substantial enough to merit special measures.

The ...

Hundreds of NYU students and faculty demonstrated yesterday to voice support for striking graduate assistants. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more.

The high point of the protest came when the protesters thronged the lobby of Bobst Library, filling it with the sound of their chants. However, as the semester winds down and ...

Chances are, you've never been to the bronx Terminal market, unless you run a restaurant or an ethnic food store. WNYC's Arun Venugopal looks into the final days of the market, which is set to give way to a shopping mall, and finds two competing visions of New York's future.

Governor Pataki has proposed an overhaul of the state's workers' compensation coverage. The program has been derided as a hurdle to economic growth by business leaders around the state. WNYC's Arun Venugopal reports.

Governor Pataki said employers would save over $800 million as a result of the proposed changes. The bulk ...

REPORTER: At a City Hall Park send off, Singer Ben Vereen serenaded the crowd which included Olympians Bob Beamon and ...

Arun Venugopal of the newspaper India Abroad, found that gay South Asians have created a community in New York that includes many Indian and Pakistani customs. But there are some aspects of South Asian culture that they want to escape, and can't.

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