Today’s Headlines
(Graphic by Karen Youresh, The Washington Post)
9:13 AM EDT on August 24, 2006
- Roadway Deaths Rise to Highest Levels in 15 Years (WaPo)
- New York-Area Gas Costs Up $900 Per Year (Daily News)
- MTA Ridership Grows Faster Than Population (NYT)
- Hundreds Pack in for Atlantic Yards Public Meeting (Gothamist)
- As Spitzer Flexes Muscle, Bloomberg Team Feels the Strain (NYT)
- Car Insurance Rates Drop in New Jersey (NYT)
- Queens Midtown Tunnel Guy Stole Tolls (NY Post)
- Guinness Book: Subway Duo Didn’t Stop at All the Stops (NY Post)
- SUV Torched in Bronx Parking Dispute (NY Post)
(Graphic by Karen Youresh, The Washington Post)
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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