Today’s Headlines
Sidewalk Parking: FDNY Employees Use Invalid Parking Placards (Daily News) Andrew Vesselinovitch on Bike Planning at DOT (NYT) “Empty” S.I. Bus Lane Moves More People Than Car Lanes Do (MTR) Hit-and-Run Drag Racer in Stolen Car Kills Brooklyn Cyclist (NY Post) NYPD Buys 15 Chrysler Chargers That Can Do 150-MPH (NYT) Pedicab Drivers Shoot the Breeze in Bedford-Stuyvesant (NYT) Beach … Continued
9:07 AM EDT on August 21, 2006
- Sidewalk Parking: FDNY Employees Use Invalid Parking Placards (Daily News)
- Andrew Vesselinovitch on Bike Planning at DOT (NYT)
- “Empty” S.I. Bus Lane Moves More People Than Car Lanes Do (MTR)
- Hit-and-Run Drag Racer in Stolen Car Kills Brooklyn Cyclist (NY Post)
- NYPD Buys 15 Chrysler Chargers That Can Do 150-MPH (NYT)
- Pedicab Drivers Shoot the Breeze in Bedford-Stuyvesant (NYT)
- Beach 105th Street Is City’s Least-Used Subway Station (NY Post)
- Chelsea Treetops Lopped Off, Denials Follow (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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