Sotomayor won't sell NY apartment in this economy

WASHINGTON — Not even Supreme Court justices are immune from the economy.Justice Sandra Sotomayor plans to keep her apartment in New York for the time being, even as she gets a place in Washington."Right now I — like many other Americans, it would not be wise for me to sell my home in New York because the market is so low," Sotomayor said in an interview with the C-SPAN network for a documentary on the court.Sotomayor's condominium in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan was worth about $1 million, according to the financial disclosure she gave the Senate when President Barack Obama nominated her to the court in May. She owed about $380,000 on a mortgage.It's hard to say what she could get for the apartment at the moment. While the housing market has shown some improvement recently, Manhattan real estate declined sharply earlier this year as tens of thousands of people lost their jobs in the crisis that shook the financial sector.___Justice John Paul Stevens, who keeps homes in Florida and Washington, told C-SPAN that he maintains his robust health at age 89 by swimming every day and playing tennis three times a week when he is at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.Stevens said he plans to continue working as long as he enjoys work at the court. He is approaching records in less than two years of being the oldest justice and in less than three years in length of service.But Stevens insists those milestones mean little. "No, I'm not out to break any records, I can assure you of that," he said.He does, however, clearly enjoy the lifestyle that allows him to go back and forth between Florida and Washington.As the other eight justices do, Stevens often takes work with him, and he sometimes reads briefs sitting on the beach.After one trip back to Washington, he found himself in court one day with the same documents he had on the beach. "I shook the sand out of the briefs and found it made my neighbors a little jealous of the way I prepare," Stevens said.___These days, the justices most often en

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