Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:07 AM EST on December 17, 2010
- Times Editorial Page Sneeringly Advocates NYPD Crackdown on Cyclists
- CB 1 Committee Urges Closing City Hall Park to Cyclists, Saying They Ignore Dismount Signs (DNAinfo)
- Fight Over FDNY Crash Fee Heads to Albany (City Room)
- Gridlock Sam’s X-mas Wishes Include Staten Island Subway, BRT on Highways (City Limits)
- Emilie Gossiaux, Cyclist Hit By Unlicensed Truck Driver, Left Blind By Crash (News, Gothamist)
- TLC to Increase Penalties for Rule-Breaking Cabbies (News)
- Hertz Connect Car-Sharing Begins Offering New Yorkers Electric Vehicles (Transpo Nation)
- Don’t Turn Hydrant Space Into Parking, Says News
- Stringer’s Move to East Side a Wake Up Call on Second Avenue Construction (NYT)
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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