Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:57 AM EDT on July 20, 2010
- Bronx Communities United for Sheridan Teardown, NYSDOT Traffic Fears Remain Obstacle (News)
- New York State Goes From Unofficially Broke to Officially Broke (Post)
- For Quick Savings, NYC Looks to Its 26,000-Vehicle Fleet (City Room)
- Police Continue to Hunt for Garbage Truck Driver Who Killed Cyclist TJ Campbell (Brooklyn Paper)
- Bike Lane Bashing Goes Highbrow in Times Review of “Cars, Culture and the City”
- Ex-EMT Shot and Killed Over SoHo Parking Space (News)
- NOLA Mayor Mitch Landrieu Open to Urban Highway Teardown (Times-Picayune)
- Reckless Cabbie Gives Cycling LA Mayor Motivation to Make Streets Safer (StreetsblogLA, LA Times)
- DC Launches Pay-By-Phone, Pay-By-Plate Parking Experiments (ABC 7)
- Manhattan CB 1 Endorses Hudson Street Ped Plaza, At Least For Now (Tribeca Trib)
- WSJ Flashback, 1988: Select Wall Streeters Deign to Try Subway
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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