Today’s Headlines
Artist Brings Public Seating to the ‘Burg (Gothamist) Bigger MTA Surplus Seen for This Year (NYT) Woman Crushed Under SUV Saved by UES Passers-By (Daily News) Pact Reached to Redevelop Far West Side (NYT) Opera Season Opens on Times Square’s Big Screens (Gothamist) Cop Charged in Fatal DWI Crash Weeps at Trial (NY Post) Push for a Downtown Brooklyn B.I.D. (NY … Continued
9:46 AM EDT on September 27, 2006

- Artist Brings Public Seating to the ‘Burg (Gothamist)
- Bigger MTA Surplus Seen for This Year (NYT)
- Woman Crushed Under SUV Saved by UES Passers-By (Daily News)
- Pact Reached to Redevelop Far West Side (NYT)
- Opera Season Opens on Times Square’s Big Screens (Gothamist)
- Cop Charged in Fatal DWI Crash Weeps at Trial (NY Post)
- Push for a Downtown Brooklyn B.I.D. (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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