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The article looks at a White Plains, New York, newspaper, "The Journal News," focusing on its December 2012 publication of the names and addresses of all residents of two counties in its coverage area who have handgun permits. It recounts the reaction to the story, including threats against the newspaper's head, Janet Hasson, and other employees.

The article focuses on the inhabitants of the condominiums in the renovated Plaza Hotel in New York City. Although 100 units in the building have been sold, fewer than 10 have full-time residents. Those who live there find this disconcerting, especially children. The residents depicted state they hope the Plaza will become a livelier environment when its hotel operations reopen on March 1, 2008.

The article reports on a study by the brokerage firm Prudential Douglas Elliman which show the average price for an apartment in Manhattan, New York City reached $1.4 million in the last quarter of the year 2007. Average prices were increasing because of the number of apartments selling above $10 million. Other indicators that the sales market in Manhattan is stronger than the U.S. housing market are discussed.

This article reports on New York City residents who are selling their apartments in the city to take advantage of lower prices for homes in the suburbs. Property prices in the city are still high and properties are in demand, but suburban properties aren't selling and prices are dropping. Some New York City residents looking for safer streets, better schools, and bigger houses are finding they can sell city property easily and use profits to buy in the suburbs.

This article discusses the high price of residential real estate in New York City. Many sellers are unwilling to negotiate for any price below their asking price even though the real estate market across the U.S. has been in a crisis mode. For the first three quarters of 2007, New York City properties sold for record prices and sellers are holding out because they believe foreign buyers and bankers who might receive bonuses could pay the high prices. Brokers believe that there is a stalemate between buyers and sellers.

This article discusses the increasing popularity of real property ownership in New York City by foreigners. Real estate brokers say that more foreign buyers than ever before are keeping real estate in the city in demand. New high-rise condominiums are attracting more buyers from cities such as London, England, where comparable properties would cost more. Many of the foreign buyers don't plan to live in the properties, but will rent and sell later at a profit.

This article reports on how home buyers are able to bargain for lower prices or persuade developers to give extras for properties in some sections of Brooklyn, New York. Realtor Thomas McAteer says that buyers are never wrong to negotiate on any aspect of a purchase. Foreclosures in some sections of Brooklyn have risen dramatically in the past several months while other sections have seen record prices and sales numbers.

The article examines how buyers of ultra-expensive Manhattan apartments and town houses also spend substantial sums redecorating the already luxurious properties. One couple who paid $6 million for their co-op apartment is shown paying $30,000 for a living room couch. Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch bought an apartment for $44 million in 2004, and had not moved in by 2007 because work was still ongoing.

The article reports on results from New York City's four major residential real estate brokerage firms, which include Prudential Douglas Elliman, Brown Harris Stevens, Halstead Property and Corcoran Group, show record real estate deals were made in Manhattan and Brooklyn for the third quarter of 2007. On average buyers spent $1.37 million for an apartment in Manhattan. Prices in Brooklyn rose 11% for apartments and town houses. Prices for real estate for previous quarters are discussed.

This article reports on the effect of the U.S. mortgage crisis on mortgage lending and real estate purchases in New York City. The crisis has caused many potential buyers to back out of deals because they wish to wait to see if prices for apartments will drop. Younger potential buyers with limited credit histories and professionals who count on year-end bonuses to pay down loans for property that is nearly 100 percent financed are the most affected by the mortgage crisis.

The article focuses on a byproduct of the rise in New York City area housing prices. A number of unhappy married couples remain together until able to sell their homes for a significant profit. The proceeds allow the two to divorce, as each has enough money to start a new life with a degree of financial independence. A similar phenomenon occurred during the stock market boom of the 1920s.

This article describes some of the cost-cutting measures taken by people seeking to buy a home in New York City. One couple with a 5-month-old child qualified for a mortgage, but gave up smoking, meeting friends after work for drinks, new clothes, and began saving tax refunds and as much as possible from earnings in order to save up for a down payment. The average Manhattan studio sells for $450,000 and the group of people who can afford this amount continues to shrink.

The article discusses the overall rise in apartment prices in New York City. Even though co-op prices are dropping, the rising prices of condominiums has made up for the difference. Buyers are willing to pay higher condominium prices to avoid the strict co-op rules. Co-op boards require so much liquidity and assets that many buyers are choosing condominiums.

This article discusses a trend among lenders to target overqualified wealthy borrowers who prefer to use their savings for investments that will provide a high rate of return and are willing to assume jumbo mortgage debts in order to purchase property. Jeffrey Appel of Preferred Empire Mortgage company has seen a 20 percent increase in jumbo mortgages in New York City over the past year. Lenders are eager to finance these large mortgages to help make up for declines in other parts of the mortgage market.

This article examines the apartment shortages and high rents in New York City. The combination is driving college graduates to come up with creative housing solutions. The rental market is as tight as it has been in seven years and is forcing young professionals to seek roommates or to squeeze into spaces so tightly that they violate city codes. Landlords in New York City typically demand that renters make 40 times their monthly rent in annual income which pushes out all but the richest.

The article reports that pet owners are finding they have to pay extra to keep their beloved canines in their apartments. Many building require dogs to undergo an interview, just like their owners do, to determine whether they are calm enough to be a part of the building. Other buildings have size requirements, leading pet owners like Joseph Olshefski to put their dogs on diets to meet weight requirements.

This article presents information about the good performance of the New York City housing market in comparison to the slumping national market. The number of sales and the prices have increased in the first quarter of 2007 over figures for the fourth quarter of 2006 and are expected to increase even more in the second quarter, according to appraiser Jonathan Miller. Wealthy New Yorkers are paying 20 percent more for large Manhattan and Brooklyn apartments than they did a year ago.

This article reports on the increasing difficulty of getting a mortgage for New York City real estate now that many lenders are struggling to stem losses from loans made to subprime borrowers. Any borrower with a low credit score or high credit card balances or other income or credit problems will face delays and higher lending fees. Lenders are spending more time on applications. Even borrowers with high incomes and relatively clean credit histories are finding it more difficult to close on loans.

This article discusses real estate in New York City during 2007. The article notes that real estate buyers under the age of 30 have begun to establish themselves in New York City, and that many have begun looking at real estate as an investment. The article also notes that many of these people are financing a large percentage of the cost of these apartments.

The article reports that New York is considering adopting London's security approach called "the ring of steel." The system, which surrounds the City of London, consists of a series of closed circuit cameras and narrowed streets that allow police to easily observe and control the area. New York would use the closed circuit technology and introduce controlled entrances and exits to lower Manhattan.

The article profiles real estate veteran and builder Larry Silverstein and his efforts to build five new towers on the site of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. One tower will open in March, but Mr. Silverstein is having trouble acquiring tenants for the space, perhaps because, as some state and city officials claim, the downtown area needs shopping, housing, and hotels more than offices. Mr. Silverstein has the right to build on the property because he signed a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center six weeks before the attacks. However, little has been rebuilt on the site in the past four years. The article considers the potential reasons for this and some of the challenges faced by Mr. Silverstein.

The article focuses on businesswoman and television host Martha Stewart and her relationship with the tattoed community in New York City. It mentions that despite of what happened in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. and Stewart's television programs and magazines, the businesswoman has emerged like a patron saint for entrepreneurs. It adds that the viewership of the Martha Stewart videos aged from 18 to 34 has increased by 40%.

In the four years since the discount bus line MegaBus has been taking passengers between Manhattan and cities across the East Coast, the company has had a nomadic existence: every time MegaBus finds a new corner to pick up customers, local businesses and landlords complain about the traffic and pollution, and the company is forced to move on. Its most recent locations on the West Side -- on 41st Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, flanked by the Port Authority Bus Terminal; and along 10th Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets -- would seem to be less objectionable; neither stop blocks a commercial or residential entrance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The notion of enjoying a cold one aboard a rush-hour commuter train leaving Manhattan may seem like a time-honored tradition, evoking visions of communal bar cars or perhaps a cocktail hour spent in solitude at one's seat. But after midnight on weekends, the specter of alcohol aboard Long Island Rail Road trains carries a far more malevolent overtone; passengers described them as the ''drunk trains,'' characterized by fights and boisterous behavior. In March, passengers were accused of attacking two conductors. The disorder has led the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to test a ban that will prohibit riders from bringing alcoholic drinks onto Long Island Rail Road trains leaving Pennsylvania Station on Friday and Saturday nights between midnight and 5 a.m., effective May 14. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board has had among its members its share of lawyers, failed mayoral candidates, union leaders - even the wife of a former Beatle. So while it may be hard to top the star power of Nancy Shevell, who left the board this year after she married Paul McCartney, the board did make history on Monday by appointing a former governor as her replacement: David A. Paterson. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As New York City prepares for the arrival of its public bike-sharing program in July, most of the intrigue has been over where and how these bikes will be placed in the city. Although none of the locations has been set in stone, the city Department of Transportation offered a sneak peek last week at where about four dozen bike stations might be placed along the West Side of Manhattan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the city spent decades trying to improve taxi service beyond central Manhattan, the Taxi and Limousine Commission voted on Thursday to adopt rules allowing New Yorkers to legally hail livery cabs in northern Manhattan and the four other boroughs, starting this summer. The rules, which resulted from legislation that Albany passed last summer and that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed in December, will allow the city to start selling licenses for up to 6,000 livery cabs in June. New Yorkers who previously had to call a livery cab for service will now be able to hail these cars as they do traditional taxis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In many cities around the world, there are simple established rules for riding buses: board at the front and exit at the back, making for an orderly passenger flow. Somehow, the pattern never caught on in New York, where every day at every stop, riders barge out of the front doors as new ones try to enter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Joe Pittelli was hit by a vehicle while he fixed potholes on the Van Wyck Expressway; his arm was sideswiped while he was paving the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive; and he was once knocked off a ladder while installing a parking sign in Long Island City. One would think, given Mr. Pittelli's history, that he would not seek out a job that required him to stand in the middle of four lanes of oncoming southbound traffic on Varick Street in Lower Manhattan, as thousands of cars, cabs and delivery vans lurch and cough their way forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among all the high-flying toys that a billionaire can buy, the futuristic AgustaWestland AW609 Tiltrotor, a hybrid helicopter-plane, is as coveted a trinket as they come. Forty people have lined up to buy the aircraft, which is modeled on the V22 Osprey used in the military. It maneuvers like a helicopter, but with the speed and altitude of a plane. It will not be ready until 2016, and the price has not even been established -- though estimates place it between $5 million and $30 million. And near the top of the ultraexclusive waiting list is one Michael R. Bloomberg. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When the Long Island Rail Road was paralyzed on Sept. 29 for nearly 12 hours after a lightning storm, nature was the obvious culprit -- but not, it turns out, the only guilty party. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's inspector general has concluded that the breakdown, which left thousands of commuters stranded on trains and at nearby stations, was caused by workers who used the wrong widget in installing computer equipment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

New York State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo have reached an agreement to finance the remaining three years of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's five-year capital plan, preserving some of the region's largest transportation projects, transportation officials said Monday. The agreement, which is expected to be ratified by the Legislature on Wednesday, would fill a $13 billion gap in the authority's $22 billion capital program. More important, work would be allowed to continue on major, long-term projects including the Second Avenue subway, East Side access for Long Island Rail Road trains, the Fulton Street Transit Center and the extension of the No. 7 subway line to the Far West Side of Manhattan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is the kind of news the city's Transportation Department would love to report someday: a New York City bike-share program that attracts all types of cyclists, from budding entrepreneurs to university professors, and does not lead to stolen bikes or injured riders. But the results of a small pilot program are not the city's to claim. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a bid to clear the streets of unlicensed taxis, dozens of newly hired officers at the Taxi and Limousine Commission have, in recent weeks, flagged down, fined and seized so many cars that New York City has run out of space to keep them. With the city's violation tow pounds at or near capacity, the commission has resorted to holding the seized vehicles in a parking lot at its safety and emissions center in Woodside, Queens, where as many as 500 taxis are inspected every day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the setting, the sound is difficult to place: a song of the wild, evoking, perhaps, a disturbed rooster accompanied by a small chirping bird. Every few minutes, the noises resume, an unlikely soundtrack at the entrance to Roosevelt Island subway station. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Officials with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority were trying on Wednesday to determine to what extent an escalator that they had hoped to replace at a Long Island Rail Road station may have caused the death of an 88-year-old woman. Irene Bernatzky died on Tuesday afternoon after she fell down the escalator at the Lindenhurst station, choking to death when her clothes got entangled in the escalator's treads, according to a preliminary investigation and autopsy, said Sam Zambuto, a Long Island Rail Road spokesman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Panamanian family who arrived in New York on Tuesday for a week's vacation got an abrupt introduction to one of the city's less desirable attractions: an unlicensed taxi driver who preys on unsuspecting tourists, the authorities said. The family, Tomas Sosa, his wife, Maria, and their two sons, ages 12 and 17, flew into Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. There, at Terminal 4, Bhupinder Singh, 37, who the authorities said had not been licensed as a livery driver since 2004, approached them and asked where they were headed. The Sosas said they were going to Manhattan, and Mr. Singh led them to his Lincoln Town Car, parked in a terminal lot, said Al Della Fave, a Port Authority police spokesman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the flames were extinguished Sunday night, firefighters made the discovery: a body, deep in an abandoned crew room, in a subway tunnel on the F line just north of 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue. The victim was obviously homeless. Less apparent were his circumstances and history, but it did not take long for those to emerge. Of all the homeless people in the subway, the victim, Anthony Horton, 43, had been among the least faceless. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Riders who find themselves on the New York City subways late at night know, or learn quickly, that their journeys might not follow the routes on the maps posted in stations or handed out at booths. The C train, for instance, mysteriously disappears, while the No. 3, a long-distance runner of sorts, cuts its rides to a sprint. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Updated 2:59 p.m. Two members of the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority resigned on Wednesday. One will leave to spend more time running the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; the other will have more time with her new spouse, Paul McCartney. Guess who received more attention? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CORRECTION APPENDED It was a bold experiment. For the first time in the century-long history of New York City's 24-hour subway system, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was going to shut down large sections of an entire train line from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. for four nights in a row to let workers scrub down and spruce up the tracks. Transportation officials said it was the best alternative to their standard approach of sending workers in to repair tracks while the trains were still running, usually on weekends. Better, they argued, to do all the work at once rather than a little at a time. But transit officials did not know how much it would anger straphangers already filled with complaints about their mass transit system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the Bloomberg administration's continued push to have the city become more hospitable to bicyclists, it should come as little surprise that the TD Five Boro Bike Tour has grown in popularity - almost to its own detriment. Last year, the registration period lasted all of 24 hours, freezing out many who had wanted to participate. And once the event began, about 3,000 riders were stranded for hours in a major bicyclist bottleneck on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Passengers traveling through Terminal 4 at Kennedy International Airport in recent months could be excused for confusing it with a maze under construction. For the past year, the terminal, which serves 10 million international passengers a year, has been undergoing an expansion that has filled the space with tall wooden barriers and so many temporary walkways that it can be as disorienting as a garden labyrinth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

William D. Peppers recalled how empty the subway car was. It was not yet 4 a.m. on a Friday, so most of New York was still asleep, but he was already late for his job at a Bronx bakery. As his train passed through Midtown Manhattan, Mr. Peppers stretched out, closed his eyes and nodded off. Then came the tap. It was a police officer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the real estate photos, the provenance of the Upper West Side pre-war co-op for sale is not readily apparent, but there are some clues. A child's bedroom is decorated with three framed transit maps. A spare bedroom converted to a den shows off a French dictionary, which would prove handy since the owner has a second home in France. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When the Port Authority of New York and New Jerseyraised bridge and tunnel tolls in September, officials said the increased revenue was necessary to ensure the financial health of the infrastructure the authority controls, including the World Trade Center project. But now, with a lawsuit challenging the tolls filed by the New York and northern New Jersey chapters of AAA, the automobile club, Port Authority officials have refined their position, saying all the added toll revenue would go toward transportation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The George Washington Bridge is a cathedral of steel cables and beams, a stark, glimmering span that has become a civil engineering landmark, not to mention the busiest vehicular bridge in the world. But now, at 80, it is in need of a thorough overhaul. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A ride on the New York subway can be a sensory overload: musicians perform for change; conductors plead to those who hold open train doors to relent; and passengers, often in unimaginably close proximity, subject one another to all sorts of sights, sounds, smells and touches, preferably inadvertent. Amid all of that, some New Yorkers nevertheless manage to fall asleep. Seats are found, trains begin their rhythmic rattles of movement, and eyelids flutter closed. Gritted jaws loosen, furrowed brows release and heads nod. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The rise in tolls on Port Authority of New York and New Jersey bridges and tunnels in September may have caused many commuters to leave their cars at home and switch to public transportation, early reports from the agency show. About 890,000 fewer cars and trucks used the crossings from Sept. 19 through Nov. 22 compared with the number that did in roughly the same period in 2010, a 4 percent drop. During that period, ridership on PATH, the Port Authority subway connecting Manhattan and New Jersey, rose by about 560,000, or 3.7 percent, the agency said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has tried to keep up with its tech-inclined riders by posting helpful Twitter messages like how to get to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, updating its Facebook page as reliably as some teenagers, and creating a contest to let riders vote on their favorite apps. But when it comes to its online auctions, the agency will never be confused with eBay. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]