If you live in a certain section of Manhattan's Upper West Side, one of the sounds of the arrival of Spring is unmistakable....

Most Christians celebrated Easter more than a month ago, but hundreds of millions of others marked their religion's most holy day yesterday. Orthodox Christians follow the Christian tradition developed in the Eastern Roman Empire, what's now Greece, Turkey and the Middle East. About a quarter-billion people around the world count ...

Less than three months before the International Olympic Committee selects the host city for the 2012 Summer Olympics the five cities vying for the games are getting a chance to make their pitches at a conference in Berlin.

High-level delegations from Paris, London, Madrid, Moscow and New York have been presenting ...

Receding floodwaters are leaving behind a trail of mud, debris and repair bills across New Jersey. Authorities say more than 5,000 people have fled their homes and that property damage will likely reach $30 million.

After six feet of water shut down the Capitol state government offices in Trenton will open ...

Subways in Manhattan are said to be back to normal this morning after yesterday's power failure on the Lexington Avenue Line that knocked out service yesterday.

The cause of the power failure remains under investigation. But transit workers found a one-foot hole in the bottom of a manhole that went through ...

For the second time in two months, one the city's busiest subway lines was shut down because of equipment failure. In January, West Side subway riders were forced to scramble for other options when a fire shut down the A and C lines. Yesterday, many East Side riders didn't have ...

The Bloomberg administration is planning a new two-mile esplanade and bicycle path to run along the East River between Battery Park and the Williamsburg Bridge.

It would reconnect Lower Manhattan to the waterfront on the Lower East Side which is dominated by the FDR Drive and currently offers few amenities.

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It may be hard to imagine a United States of America where women were not allowed to vote. But it was only 85 years ago that women gained that most basic right in this country. One woman who was instrumental in securing that right for women was Susan B. Anthony. ...

The lunar new year begins today and you can expect to hear firecrackers going off on the main streets of Chinatown.

The day is celebrated throughout Asia and by a variety of Asian Americans in New York. The sixth annual parade and festival in Manhattan will take place Sunday, with performers ...

If you've visited Central Park over the past few weeks you may have noticed workers placing squat rectangular bases every 12 feet or so along either side of the park's 23 miles of walkways. It's part of a huge art project brought to you by the same artists who among ...

Almost five months have passed since the 9/11 Commission released its final report, saying the federal government suffered from quote- "failures of imagination, policy, capabilities and management." The report warned the president and the Congress that sweeping reforms were needed to prevent another catastrophic terrorist strike. Some of the commission's ...

New York state's hourly minimum wage will increase from $5.15 to $7.15 following state Senate action that completed an override of Governor Pataki's veto. The measure will be carried out in three phases pushing the minimum wage to 6 dollars an hour on January 1 to $6.75 on January 1, ...

A federal jury ruled yesterday that when it comes to some of the insurance coverage the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center was two occurrences. That means leaseholder Larry Silverstein stands to collect up to 4.6 billion dollars. The verdict is the latest in a more than three-year ...

This is what many would-be voters have been hearing when they call New York City's voter help line. With more than 400-thousand newly registered voters, and high voter turnout expected, the Board of Elections has been flooded with calls and traffic on their web site. For people trying to find ...

Two weeks ago former State Senator Guy Velella was granted early release from prison. He'd only served a little more than three months of a 1-year sentence for his role in a bribery scheme.

The little-known city commission that granted his release is now under investigation. Yesterday, the head of ...

The day's march lasted about five hours, with protesters filling the streets past Madison Square Garden across 34th street and back downtown to Union Square. WNYC reporters spent the day listening to why people felt the need to come out and march.

In a city like New York, where people pride themselves for speaking their minds, why is it so hard to find a place to do that? Joining me this morning to talk about how the city accomodates protest is Lisa Keller, associate professor of history and director of journalism at ...

Most every weekend during the summer, hundreds of women gather to compete in a sport that you may have never heard of. It's called netball, and while it was invented in the U.S., it's been brought back to life in this country by immigrants, mostly from the West Indies . ...

Carnegie Hall has named a new artistic director. Clive Gillinson is set to take over the post next summer. He has been the managing director of the London Symphony Orchestra for 20 years and was a cellist in the orchestra before that. He joins WNYC to talk about his new ...

Moving people across international borders and then forcing them to work against their will. is a crime called Human Trafficking.

The New York City area, as an international gateway, is one of the nation's hotspots for this modern-day version of slavery.

Yesterday you heard about how law enforcement ...