Today’s Headlines
Feds Award $293 Million in Transit Grants, Transpo Nation Looks at Winners and Losers (1, 2) Why Did D.C.’s Streetcar Bid Lose Out? (GGW) Fed Funding for Second Ave Subway, East Side Access Dwarfs Bus/Streetcar Money (SAS) Local Activism Convinces City to Remove Staten Island Greenway Fence (Advance) Charter Revision Report Drops Today: Term Limits … Continued
By
Noah Kazis
9:06 AM EDT on July 9, 2010
- Feds Award $293 Million in Transit Grants, Transpo Nation Looks at Winners and Losers (1, 2)
- Why Did D.C.’s Streetcar Bid Lose Out? (GGW)
- Fed Funding for Second Ave Subway, East Side Access Dwarfs Bus/Streetcar Money (SAS)
- Local Activism Convinces City to Remove Staten Island Greenway Fence (Advance)
- Charter Revision Report Drops Today: Term Limits In, But What About Land Use? (Crain’s, NY1)
- Bloomberg Plan to Limit Art Vendors in Parks Draws Lawsuit (NYT)
- Jackson Heights Play Street Officially Open and Car-Free for the Summer (Queens Chron)
- NYT Travel Section Plugs Copenhagen Bike Tourism
- NYPD Detective Blows Red Light, Seriously Injures Moped Driver (My Little O)
- Diane Rehm Show Devotes Full Hour to History and Future of Parking Garages
Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.
Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.
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