Today’s Headlines
’07 Fare Hike May Be on Hold (Daily News) Wal-Mart Opens in White Plains (NYT) Lower Manhattan Development Corp. to Go Out of Business (NYT) City Health Dept. to Spray for Mosquitos on Staten Island (NYC.gov) West Nile and Malaria Risk May Be Increasing Due to Warming (Columbia U.) M.T.A. to Consider Hudson Yards Bid (NYT) 1 Dead … Continued
8:06 AM EDT on July 26, 2006
- ’07 Fare Hike May Be on Hold (Daily News)
- Wal-Mart Opens in White Plains (NYT)
- Lower Manhattan Development Corp. to Go Out of Business (NYT)
- City Health Dept. to Spray for Mosquitos on Staten Island (NYC.gov)
- West Nile and Malaria Risk May Be Increasing Due to Warming (Columbia U.)
- M.T.A. to Consider Hudson Yards Bid (NYT)
- 1 Dead in Hit-and-Run at 28th and Third (NY Post)
- Staten Island Man Killed in Wrong-Way Crash on L.I. (Newsday)
- N.J. Officials Urge AirTrain Use During Road Construction (Star-Ledger)
- N.J. Rail Commutes Snarled by Hackensack River Bridge Problem (Star Ledger)
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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