Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

MTA’s Future Will Depend on New Governor (Gothamist) City Set To Present New Plan for Lower East Side (Sun) X10 Bus Driver Kicks Off Rider for Coughing (Post) SUV’s Continue to Escape Guzzler Tax (Wired) Buy Your Way Out of Global Warming Guilt (CarbonFund) Trick or Treater Killed on Harlem River Drive (News) Cop Run … Continued

By Aaron Naparstek

11:02 AM EST on November 1, 2006

MTA’s Future Will Depend on New Governor (Gothamist)
City Set To Present New Plan for Lower East Side (Sun)
X10 Bus Driver Kicks Off Rider for Coughing (Post)
SUV’s Continue to Escape Guzzler Tax (Wired)
Buy Your Way Out of Global Warming Guilt (CarbonFund)
Trick or Treater Killed on Harlem River Drive (News)
Cop Run Over. Mayor Mike Finally Angry About NYC Auto Violence (Post)
Brooklynians debate the impact of a huge new parking lot (Brooklynian)
Housing Displacement in Prospect and Crown Heights (AYR)
Life on the Lower East Side in Photos, 1937 – 1950 (Polis)

Aaron Naparstek

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.

Today's Headlines

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