Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
9:14 AM EST on February 11, 2010
- Bloomberg Expected to Announce Permanent Opening of Broadway Today (News)
- Manhattan Institute’s Gelinas, McMahon: No Heroes in MTA Crisis That Threatens Entire State (Post)
- While Monserrate Considered Monserrate the Victim, Fellow Senators, Too, Saw Themselves (NYT)
- Words Fail: As Abuser Friend Is Booted, Kevin Parker and Co. Gang Up on Diane Savino (News)
- Honest-to-Goodness Community Organizer Mulls Run Against Pedro Espada (BxNN)
- How Much for the Ear of a New York Politician? Check It Out (NYT)
- Downtown Brooklyn in Midst of Population Surge (Post)
- Traffic-Fearing Brooklynites Want City, Markowitz to Leave Asser Levy Park Alone (NYT)
- More Susan Jhun: Space-Hogging Car Wash Endangers, Enrages East Harlem Neighbors (NY1)
- “Stray Voltage” Shocks Five Herald Square Pedestrians (Post, NY1)
- WNYC Looks Under Grand Central Terminal for Progress on LIRR Hub
- China HSR Network So Good It’s Hurting Country’s Airlines (Infrastructurist)
- Andres Duany Talks to Popular Mechanics About His Smart Growth Manual
- Calling Exceptional Urbanists: 2010 Jane Jacobs Award Now Up for Grabs (BizWeek)
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Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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