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9:29 AM EDT on June 26, 2009

    • DeFazio: Make Wall Street A$$holes Pay for Infrastructure (Infrastructurist)
    • The MTA Says It Needs $600M to Keep Going... (News)
    • ...So Why Did the MTA Just Give Forest City $100 Million? (Atlantic Yards Report)
    • Another Innocent Mom Killed in Area Cop Car Chase. (WPIX 11) 
    • Cy Vance Vows to Carry on in the Tradition of Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau (News, Post)
    • DWT: Driving While Texting is Worse than Driving Drunk (Oregonian)
    • One Story You Won't See in Today's Paper: 97 Dead in Car Wrecks (Yglesias)
    • Lower East Side Community Board Member Opposes New Crosswalk (Lo-Down)
    • Use it or Lose It: States Are Spending Their Transportation Stimulus Dollars (NYT)
    • A Mega-Project Walking Tour With RPA's Bob Yaro (Urban Omnibus)
    • The Sad State of Transit Advocacy (2nd Ave Sagas via Streetsblog.net)
    • Straphangers Campaign: The No. 7 Line is the Least Schmutzy Subway (NYT)
    • Ruth Madoff is Forced to Ride the F Train: The Horror (Post)
    • The New York State Senate Just Gets More Embarrassing (Politicker) 
    • Rick Lazio Proposes to Abolish the State Senate (Daily Intel)
    • It's Official: I'm Using Twitter Obsessively. Help! (@naparstek)
Aaron Naparstek
@naparstek.bsky.social

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.

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