Today’s Headlines
Measuring a Project’s Shadow, and Burden, on Brooklyn (NYT) Atlantic Yards Cost Hits $4.2B; Gargano, Stuckey Defend Scale (AYR) Martin Gallent, 75, a Champion of Smart Development, Dies (NYT) Who’s a Menace Behind the Wheel? (NYT) Police Seek New Controls on Protesters and Bicyclists (NYT) Travelers Swelter Amid Power Failures and Transit Shutdowns (NYT) Building … Continued
9:38 AM EDT on July 19, 2006
- Measuring a Project’s Shadow, and Burden, on Brooklyn (NYT)
- Atlantic Yards Cost Hits $4.2B; Gargano, Stuckey Defend Scale (AYR)
- Martin Gallent, 75, a Champion of Smart Development, Dies (NYT)
- Who’s a Menace Behind the Wheel? (NYT)
- Police Seek New Controls on Protesters and Bicyclists (NYT)
- Travelers Swelter Amid Power Failures and Transit Shutdowns (NYT)
- Building Community by Turning a Median Strip into a Garden (Sierra 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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