Today’s Headlines
(Photo by Mary DiBiase Blaich for The New York Times)
9:27 AM EDT on October 2, 2006
- Van Accident Kills Parents, but Police Save Their Children (NYT)
- MTA Vote to Extend No. 7 Train Is Good Deal for New Yorkers (Daily News)
- Car Spins Out of Control and Pins a Pedestrian at 62nd and Lex (NYT)
- Violent Incidents Shake the Upper East Side (NY Sun)
- N.J. Judge Is Censured for Driving While Intoxicated (Star-Ledger)
- Lower East Siders Grumble as Cars Drive Ceaselessly Over Metal Plates (NYT)
- Intrepid’s Last Weekend in Town (Gothamist)
(Photo by Mary DiBiase Blaich for The New York Times)
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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