Today’s Headlines
Crowd Gathers to Protest Size of Atlantic Yards Plan Sweltering DDDB Rally Draws 2,000+. Resistance Shows Growth NYC Declares Ozone Air Quality Alert. Opens Cooling Centers Temperatures Hit Upper 90s Coast to Coast First half of year was USA’s warmest on record From Group of 8, Energy Focus Is on Oil Rail Spur Brings Downtown … Continued
8:36 AM EDT on July 17, 2006
- Crowd Gathers to Protest Size of Atlantic Yards Plan
- Sweltering DDDB Rally Draws 2,000+. Resistance Shows Growth
- NYC Declares Ozone Air Quality Alert. Opens Cooling Centers
- Temperatures Hit Upper 90s Coast to Coast
- First half of year was USA’s warmest on record
- From Group of 8, Energy Focus Is on Oil
- Rail Spur Brings Downtown Newark a Taste of Its Past
- Red Hook [Crash] Victim Dies
- A Crash Course for the Elderly
Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.
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