Today’s Headlines
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8:03 AM EDT on July 27, 2006

- AirTrain Ridership Soars (NY Post)
- No Fare Hike Until at Least Sept. 2007 (Daily News)
- Last Hurdle for Javitz Expansion Cleared (Crain’s)
- Judge Halts Washington Sq. Park Redesign (NYT)
- Port Authority to Vote Today on Hudson Commuter Rail Tunnel (NYT)
- MTA Authorizes Negotiations With City Over Hudson Yards (Daily News)
- Senator Clinton Notes High Gas Prices and Calls for Energy Plan (Daily News)
- Subway Scratchiti King ‘Smashed’ (NY Post)
- N.J. DOT Plan to Repair I-78 Delayed After Towns Complain (NYT)
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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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