Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:24 AM EST on November 18, 2011
- Cuomo on New Tappan Zee: “I Don’t Want To Hear About The Problems” (LoHud)
- Prospect Park Bike Crash Victim Sues City for $3M (Post)
- Federal Aid to Help Complete Lower Manhattan East River Greenway (WSJ)
- Brownsville Elementary School Organizes Walking School Buses to Get Kids Home Safely (News)
- Ratner Unveils New, Modular Design for Atlantic Yards Tower (NYT)
- Upper East Siders Want Crackdown on Commercial Cyclists (DNAinfo)
- Staten Island Electeds to Rally Against Tolls (Advance)
- Marty Golden v. Daniel Squadron: A Residential Parking Permit Debate (Bklyn Daily 1, 2)
- Bronx Community Boards Discuss Fidler Bike Lane Outreach Bill (Bx Times)
- East Side Access Worker Killed by Falling Concrete (News, NYT)
- The MTA Might Need Another $15B If It Wants Protection From Climate Change (Transpo Nation)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
Streetsblog will be on a light publishing schedule today. All our editors and reporters are in NYC for our annual business strategy and planning session. We also have a crack team of freelancers covering Scott Stringer’s transportation conference and will bring you highlights and analysis on Monday.
And one more thing: Thanks to everyone who made it out to Bike Habitat in Brooklyn last night for our “Streets of the Future” benefit! We had a blast.
Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.
Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.
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