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According to Senator Charles Schumer, the Securing the Cities program will receive the federal funding on top of more than $73 million already invested in the program.

Along with security cameras, sensors are set up at highways, toll plazas, bridges, tunnels and waterways to detect nuclear devices or dirty bombs. They've already been placed at major entry points into the city.

The Department of Homeland Security had threatened to cancel the funding, but Schumer fought to restore it.

"The program's been a top priority for the NYPD and Commissioner [Ray] Kelly and it is probably our last line of defense against a nuclear weapon being smuggled into the five boroughs and that is our greatest nightmare," Schumer said.

Schumer says that fighting terrorism is a federal responsibility and the burden should not be placed on city taxpayers.

Meanwhile, the NYPD said in a statement Friday that Governors Island would be an unsuitable location for the trials of the alleged masterminds behind the September 11th terrorist attacks.

One day after Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said he would consider holding the trial on the island, the NYPD found after an initial review that there would be "risks related to transporting the prisoners to and from the island, as well as the general lack of modern infrastructure there."

Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the idea to move the so-called terror trial from lower Manhattan to Governors Island "one of the dumber ideas he's ever heard."

The Downtown Express, a weekly lower Manhattan newspaper, said the mayor cited the planned move of New York Harbor High School to the island in September as one of the reasons he's against it.\

City Councilmember Margaret Chin, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senator Daniel Squadron released a joint statement Friday saying they were very disappointed with what they called the mayor's callous dismissal of the idea.

They said his comments show a lack of sensitivity and understanding of the significant toll the trial may exact on residents and businesses in the area.

Meanwhile, NYPD officials said their counterterrorism strategy has not changed, even after authorities in Britain elevated the nation's terror threat level to "severe," the second-highest level, on Friday.

A British official said this means a terror attack is highly likely, but that there is no intelligence to suggest an attack is imminent.

Officials did not give a reason for raising the alert, but earlier this week Britain suspended direct flights to Yemen's capital in response to the growing threat from al-Qaida-affiliated militants based in the
country.