Today’s Headlines

9:03 AM EDT on October 4, 2006

Staten Islanders Coping With Reduced Bus Service (NYT)
Queens Boulevard Hit-and-Run Victim Dies (Gothamist)
In Pedestrian's Killing, Queens Couple Sees Another 'Senseless' Statistic (NYT)
Census Bureau Ups NYC Population After City Challenge (Daily News)
Waterfront Oasis Openes in the Bronx (NYT)
L.I.R.R. Chief Retires After Giving Commuters a Ride to the Future (NYT)
More Than 12 Expected to Bid for Stuyvesant Town (NYT)
Mayor Bloomberg Will Head 9/11 Memorial Foundation (Gothamist)
Curtain Pulled on Farley Post Office/Moynihan Station (Curbed)
Partnership Working to Revitalize Downtown Brooklyn (NY Sun)

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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