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Priest Protests Parking Ticket He Got While Called for Last Rites (AP via AMNY) Patient He Visited, Who Lived, Demands City Refund the Ticket (Daily News) State Authorities to Study Rail Safety After Teen’s Death (AP via NYT) Team Begins 24-Hour Subway Endurance Ride (Gothamist) Tri-State Transportation Campaign Comments on Atlantic Yards DEIS (TSTC PDF) New Financial Backer to Finish … Continued

By Aaron Donovan

9:01 AM EDT on August 23, 2006

Priest Protests Parking Ticket He Got While Called for Last Rites (AP via AMNY)
Patient He Visited, Who Lived, Demands City Refund the Ticket (Daily News)
State Authorities to Study Rail Safety After Teen’s Death (AP via NYT)
Team Begins 24-Hour Subway Endurance Ride (Gothamist)
Tri-State Transportation Campaign Comments on Atlantic Yards DEIS (TSTC PDF)
New Financial Backer to Finish Xanadu Complex at the Meadowlands (NYT)
6 Train Halted in Liquids Scare (Daily News)
Washington Heights Residents Get Cars Back After 15 Months (Daily News)

Aaron Donovan

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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