Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:54 AM EDT on September 17, 2010
- 45-Year Old Man Killed Crossing Harlem River Drive (News)
- Bus Driver Who Killed Seth Kahn Driving Too Fast, Distracted, Investigation Shows (News)
- Brodsky’s Proudest Moment: Removing Tolls on Saw Mill Parkway (LoHud)
- City of Beacon Stalling Blocks MetroNorth’s Planned TOD (Mid-Hudson News)
- At Public Hearings, Riders Won’t Choose Between Capped or Uncapped Monthly Pass (Post)
- Liu to Recommend Formalizing Community Benefit Agreement Process For Major Rezonings (WSJ)
- Cities Step Up Despite Federal Climate Inaction (Grist)
- Slideshow: Building a Reef From Old Subway Cars (WNYC)
- Nicholas Kristof: Bike Allows Zimbabwean Orphan to Finish High School
- Copenhagen to Legalize Right-on-Red for Cyclists (Copenhagenize)
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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