Today’s Headlines

8:59 AM EDT on November 1, 2010

As Yankee Stadium Garages Try to Avoid Default, BP Diaz Urges Redevelopment Instead (News)
Cuomo's Green Agenda Praises Transit, Suggests Smart Growth Grant Program (Transpo Nation)
Brian Lehrer Show Asks What Election Means For Transit, Whether MTA Should Be Abolished (WNYC)
Can New York Afford to Keep Queens Suburban? (Observer)
Even With $8,600 In Tickets, Government Officials Can't Be Towed (News)
...But Bloomberg Promises To End Perk (News)
Fare Enforcement Starts on East Side SBS, With 40 Tickets a Day (News)
Pedestrian Killed in Jackson Heights Hit-And-Run Sunday Night (News)
Carmen Huertas, Who Killed Leandra Rosado, Sentenced to 4-12 Years In Prison (WCBS)
Van Speeds Through Yellow Light, Seriously Injures 16-Year-Old In Dyker Heights (News)
Resident Pushes Safety Fix For Prospect Heights Intersection, Gets DOT Sit-Down (Bklyn Paper)
MTA Staff Remove Anti-Walder Graffiti From City Sidewalks (News)

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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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