Today’s Headlines
Photo: Paul Desmarais/Stamford Advocate
9:07 AM EDT on July 12, 2006
- Storms in Connecticut Block Roads and Metro-North Branch (Stamford Advocate)
- MTA Sidelines Move to Cut Conductors on Subways (Daily News)
- 2 Bronx Crash Survivors Hang on for Life (Daily News)
- $1.3 Million Greenway Project Advances in Elizabeth, N.J. (NJ.com)
- New Subway Payment Method Is Tested (NYT)
- In Gasoline Scheme, Regular Was Sold as Premium, Prosecutors Say (NYT)
- Seymour, CT, Reconsiders Personal Use of Official Vehicles (Conn. Post)
- Extra Transit Security After India Bombings (Daily News)
- New York State Moves to Fill Federal Transit Security Gap (AP via NY Post)
- Promises of Atlantic Yards Draw Thousands to Meeting (NYT)
Photo: Paul Desmarais/Stamford Advocate
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.
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