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Today’s Headlines

Increased Subway Service for Playoffs (NYT) News Roundup: 1 Dead, 2 Injured in 3 City Ped Hits (Gothamist) New York City Population Up but Water Use Down (NYT) Amtrak, MTA to Install Chemical Detection System at Penn (AP via Daily News) Police Investigate Staten Island Van Crash (NY1) Staten Island Crash Couple Had Found Dream (Daily News)
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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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