Today’s Headlines
Tragic New Red Hook ‘Trend’ (NY Post) U.S. Gas Prices Hit All-Time High (AP via NYT) MTA to Upgrade Its Website (NY Post) Critics Say Turnstiles Could Be Deadly in a Fire (AP via Daily News) NYC Yellow Cabs Getting Larger (NYT) ‘Vacant’ Lots Disappearing in the South Bronx (NYT) Girl, 15, Killed by Sleeping Hummer Driver; No Charges Filed … Continued
7:59 AM EDT on July 24, 2006
- Tragic New Red Hook ‘Trend’ (NY Post)
- U.S. Gas Prices Hit All-Time High (AP via NYT)
- MTA to Upgrade Its Website (NY Post)
- Critics Say Turnstiles Could Be Deadly in a Fire (AP via Daily News)
- NYC Yellow Cabs Getting Larger (NYT)
- ‘Vacant’ Lots Disappearing in the South Bronx (NYT)
- Girl, 15, Killed by Sleeping Hummer Driver; No Charges Filed (Newsday)
- Driver Had Pled Guilty to Usury (NYT)
- N.J. Attorney General Won’t Resign After Traffic Stop Flap (AP via Newsday)
- Car Trouble Seems to Follow N.J. Attorney General (NYT)
- Bronx Native Recalls Cars Used in Heists, Now Enjoys Driving (NYT)
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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