Today’s Headlines
NYC Business Elite Soar Above City’s Traffic Mess (NYT) Gimme Swelter! (Daily News) Nation Sweats as Heat Hits Triple Digits (NYT) “Atlantic Yards” DEIS Expected This Week (NLG) City Planners Fail Brooklyn (MTR) Stuck A train in Queens boils riders (Daily News) New York City: Traffic? Laws? What? (MTR) Girl Hit When Her Dog … Continued
10:22 AM EDT on July 18, 2006

- NYC Business Elite Soar Above City’s Traffic Mess (NYT)
- Gimme Swelter! (Daily News)
- Nation Sweats as Heat Hits Triple Digits (NYT)
- “Atlantic Yards” DEIS Expected This Week (NLG)
- City Planners Fail Brooklyn (MTR)
- Stuck A train in Queens boils riders (Daily News)
- New York City: Traffic? Laws? What? (MTR)
- Girl Hit When Her Dog Runs Into Traffic (NYT)
- Energy Emancipation (Sierra Club Compass)
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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