Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EDT on October 21, 2010
- “Bike Bedlam” Actually Helpful? City To Start Tracking Bike/Ped Collisions (CBS 2)
- Hundreds Expected On Both Sides of Prospect Park West Rally (News)
- Brooklyn Paper Editorial Serves Up Common Sense On Henry Street, PPW Bike Lanes
- … And Their Editorial Cartoon Is Worth 1,000 Words (Bklyn Paper)
- Feds Can’t Reform Transportation Alone, Need State and Local Cooperation (MTR)
- More On City’s $1M Critical Mass Settlement (WNYC)
- Long Island Father Killed in Hit-And-Run While Leaving Bible Study (CBS 2)
- Emilie Gossiau, Cyclist Hit By Improperly Licensed Trucker, Will Recover After Year of Rehab (Gothamist)
- Astoria Restaurants Claim Public Curb For Private Valet Service (News)
- Meanwhile, Astoria CB Approves Closing Block of 36th Street To Lease to TV Studio (News)
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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