Football fans are getting ready for the Giants - Jets showdown on Saturday at Met Life Stadium in New Jersey. The game will likely decide which team makes it into the NFL playoffs, and which slinks off the local sports stage until next season.

Whether you celebrate one of the religious holidays or just a few days off from work, this time of year is a time to gather with friends and family. And chances are there will be lots of the same stories being told at your dinner table.

We open the phones for you to tell that classic family story - or try out a new one. Plus, WNYC reporter Jim O'Grady - a Moth StorySlam and GrandSlam winner - offers advice on how best to tell your tale. Call in with your story 212-433-9692!

The MTA likes to keep its disagreements behind closed doors. But with one comment, differences over $20 million burst forward into the board meeting on Wednesday.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s new executive director said he’s been thinking about the “peace dividend” he expects once 1 World Trade Center is completed in 2013 – when the authority will be able to turn its energies toward completing “tens of billions” in overdue transportation infrastructure overhauls.

The MTA has launched a contest for software applications that help riders get around by subway, bus or train. It's a sign of how the MTA has become better about sharing data, but the authority is still keeping some important information to itself.

The Straphangers Campaign is out with its annual Pokie Award, and the "winner" is the M50 bus.

There were some new balloons this year in Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Paul Frank's sock puppet-inspired simian Julius made its debut in front of millions of spectators Thursday, as did fellow newcomer B., a freakish creation from filmmaker Tim Burton.

The 2012 opening of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center could be delayed because the museum and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are arguing over funds.

The MTA and its largest union opened contract talks on Tuesday at the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Both sides acknowledged tense times ahead.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano held a press conference in a Garden City bus garage to announce that Veolia Transportation, a private company, will assume operations of Long Island Bus from the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority on January 1.

An audit of the MTA reveals there was systemic abuse of overtime and the payroll system that will cost the state millions.

New York City Transit suffered its third derailment in six months on October 24, when two train cars jumped the tracks. It's the kind of major breakdown that tends to make riders wonder, could the subway be sliding backward toward the dark days of the 1980s?

The New York State Labor Department has given notice that 981 Long Island Bus workers could be laid off on New Year's Day. The move is a precautionary step, in case Nassau County fails in its effort to privatize a bus line that the MTA now runs. Still, the uncertainty is causing concern among the bus service's work force, and its 100,000 average weekday riders.

So-called "Chinatown buses" that pick up and drop off passengers at the curb have more fatal accidents and fail more inspections than larger carriers, according to a report by the National Transportation Safety Board. And curbside carriers with ten or fewer buses that have been in business less than ten years tend to have the worst safety records of all.

The deadline for universities to submit their bids to open a new engineering school in the city with the help of the Bloomberg administration is today.

Jim O'Grady, WNYC's transit reporter, explains the latest MTA plan to fight litter by removing trash barrels from subway platforms.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's office said 116 bus drivers and 95 buses had been pulled out of service after a two week roadside inspection blitz by New York state police.  

New Jersey just got racy. Governor Chris Christie formally announced Tuesday that London-based Formula 1 will hold a Grand Prix car race along the New Jersey side of the Hudson in June 2013.

The MTA unveiled on Monday a new program meant to lower the number of rats in the subway by removing trash from stations.

A controversial plan by the MTA to charge a dollar for a new Metrocard has been put off until at least until January. Programming Metrocard vending machines to charge the fee has turned out to be harder than the authority expected.