Today’s Headlines
8:58 AM EDT on August 25, 2006
- Brooklynite Creates Hand-Out for Cars in Bike Lanes (Brooklyn Ramblings)
- Illegal Chambers Street Parkers Banished After Expose (NY Post)
- Al Gore to Train 1,000 People to Give Climate Presentation (Climate Project)
- Markowitz Adjusts Stance on Atlantic Yards (NYT)
- 68 Comments and Counting: Atlantic Yards Race Card (Curbed)
- Subway Duo Passes Every Station in 24 Hours, 2 Minutes (Daily News)
- Ohio Woman Upset After Getting False NYC Red Light Ticket (Daily News)
- Computer Thought ‘O’ Was a ‘Q’ (The Newspaper)
- Parks Report Card: It’s Not Good (Gothamist)
- Roosevelt Island Tram, Version 2.0, Nears Its Rollout (NYT)
- Cabby Charged With Sexually Assaulting Sleeping Passenger (NY 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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