Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:06 AM EDT on September 13, 2010
- WSJ Poll: 61% Blame MTA, Not Pols, for Transit Crisis as Service Cuts Disproportionately Hit Poor
- Yankee Stadium‘s 9,000 Parking Spaces Sit Half Empty; Operator Could Default on City Bonds (News)
- NJ Officials Put Hudson Transit Tunnel Work on Hiatus, Raising Doubts About Project’s Future (NYT)
- Cyclist Jasmine Herron Killed on Atlantic Ave After Unlicensed Driver Doors Her (News 1, 2, Post)
- Location, Location, Location: MTA Service Cuts Drive Down Real Estate Prices (WSJ)
- Tape Shows Ticket Quotas for Traffic Summonses at Brooklyn Precinct (NYT)
- … NYPD Response Denies a Quota Is a Quota (NYT)
- Commuter Van Service Starts Today, TWU Drops Plans to Operate Own Line (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Seeking Staten Island Votes, Carl Paladino Promises End to Verrazano Bridge Tolls (Daily Politics)
- Letter to Editor Slams Times For Broadway Article Bias
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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