Today’s Headlines
Cities Aren’t Getting Their Share of Stim Funds — Job Creation Suffers (NYT) Paterson Taps Dick Ravitch for Lt. Gov. Post in Bid to End Albany Stalemate (NYT, Post, News) Climate Bill Funnels Way More Cash to Coal and Oil Than to Transit (Washington Independent) NYC Selling Permits for Events — Some Commercial — in … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:55 AM EDT on July 9, 2009
- Cities Aren’t Getting Their Share of Stim Funds — Job Creation Suffers (NYT)
- Paterson Taps Dick Ravitch for Lt. Gov. Post in Bid to End Albany Stalemate (NYT, Post, News)
- Climate Bill Funnels Way More Cash to Coal and Oil Than to Transit (Washington Independent)
- NYC Selling Permits for Events — Some Commercial — in Midtown Ped Plazas (NYT, How We Drive)
- DOT Stripes 200th Bike Lane Mile in Three Years (News, WNYC)
- Without MTA Agents in Some Stations, Straphangers Left Guessing About Train Delays (AMNY)
- Cab Jumps Curb on Upper West Side, Strikes Four Pedestrians (News)
- Whole Foods and Its 420-Car Parking Lot Won’t Be Setting Up on Brooklyn’s Third Ave (Bklyn Paper)
- 1000 Online Slots for Tour de Queens Gobbled Up in Less Than 12 Hours (News)
- How to Build Schools That Don’t Feel Like Wal-Marts (Switchboard via Streetsblog.net)
Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.
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