Today’s Headlines
8:54 AM EDT on August 28, 2006
- For Thruway Users, Traffic Alerts by E-Mail (NYT)
- Fatal Hit-and-Run Is Second in 9-Hour Span in Manhattan (NYT)
- Marine Held in Chelsea Hit-and-Run (NY Post)
- Hit-and-Run: Time for Serious Hearings and Legislation (Room Eight)
- Ratner ‘Would Consider’ Markowitz’s Yards Height Suggestion (Gothamist)
- New Visions Arising in Lower Manhattan (NY Sun)
- Rail Parking Letters: Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester, Connecticut (NYT)
- Staten Island NASCAR Raceway Developer Reduced Planned Parking (NY Post)
- Study Calls New Jersey a Taxing Place to Call Home (Star-Ledger)
- Danny Gordon Roller Skates 14 Miles to Work Every Day (NYT)
(Photo by bayshore on Flickr)
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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