Today’s Headlines
NYC Population Growth Good News for Albany Dems; Your Results May Vary (NYT) MTA Budget Takes Another Hit as Real Estate Tax Revenue Comes Up Short (Crain’s) Proposed Benefit Cuts for New Hires Would Save Current Transit Jobs (News) DC’s Unfunded Passenger Rail Mandate Will Cost State (MTR) Planning Commission Signs Off on Flushing Commons; … Continued
By
Brad Aaron
9:12 AM EDT on June 24, 2010
- NYC Population Growth Good News for Albany Dems; Your Results May Vary (NYT)
- MTA Budget Takes Another Hit as Real Estate Tax Revenue Comes Up Short (Crain’s)
- Proposed Benefit Cuts for New Hires Would Save Current Transit Jobs (News)
- DC’s Unfunded Passenger Rail Mandate Will Cost State (MTR)
- Planning Commission Signs Off on Flushing Commons; Critics: Parking, Parking, Parking (NY1)
- Driver in Chase That Killed Sister Mary Celine Graham Charged With Murder (News, NY1)
- Related: Mugging Victim Takes More Responsibility Than NYPD (Post)
- DWI Killer Sentenced to Rehab for ’09 FDR Crash; Judge: Jail Won’t Bring Victim Back (DNAinfo)
- Marcia Kramer Upset That the Mayor of New York City Doesn’t Spend His Time Disciplining TEAs
- Pedestrian Plaza to Be Installed for Duration of Chambers Street Reconstruction (Tribeca Trib)
- NYSDOT Won’t Take More of Brooklyn Heights for BQE; No Promises for Other Nabes (Bklyn Paper)
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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