Today’s Headlines
9:29 AM EDT on September 1, 2006
- Excavation of Buried Cars Bring Closure (But Nothing to Drive) (NYT)
- False ‘No Parking’ Signs Mysteriously Appear in DUMBO (Daily News)
- FedEx, UPS, Pay for Doing Business in NYC – Parking Tickets (AP via NY Post)
- Appraisal Puts Hudson Yards Value at 3 Times City’s Bid (NYT)
- Roosevelt Island Tram to Reopen Today (Daily News)
- Airports on Pace to Set Passenger Record (NYT)
- Neighbors Sue Whitney Museum Over Expansion Plans (NY Sun)
- Developer, Architects Set to Unveil Ground Zero Designs (NY Sun)
- Pirro Husband, Clocked at 98 m.p.h., Pleads Guilty to 74 (AP via NYT)
- Commission May Designate Crown Heights Historic District (The Real Estate)
- Queens Car Shooter Had DWI History (NY Post)
- Flood-Damaged I-88 Reopens Upstate (AP via NYT)
- Prospect Park Station Is the Prettiest in Brooklyn (Across the Park)
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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