Today’s Headlines
How the Holiday Blizzard Paralyzed NYC (NYT, News) Plowing Slowed By Abandoned Vehicles… (NYT 1, 2) …But Post, David Greenfield Blast Bloomberg For Clearing Bike Lanes (Post 1, 2, Yeshiva World News) Tri-State’s Welcome Letter to Cuomo: Reform NYS DOT, Focus on Buses (MTR) NY1‘s New Yorker Of The Year: Janette Sadik-Khan New Yorkers Now Pay More For Transportation, From … Continued
By
Noah Kazis
8:56 AM EST on January 3, 2011
- How the Holiday Blizzard Paralyzed NYC (NYT, News)
- Plowing Slowed By Abandoned Vehicles… (NYT 1, 2)
- …But Post, David Greenfield Blast Bloomberg For Clearing Bike Lanes (Post 1, 2, Yeshiva World News)
- Tri-State’s Welcome Letter to Cuomo: Reform NYS DOT, Focus on Buses (MTR)
- NY1‘s New Yorker Of The Year: Janette Sadik-Khan
- New Yorkers Now Pay More For Transportation, From MetroCards and Gas to Helicopters (NYT)
- Cost of On-Street Parking Rises in Manhattan and Queens, With Other Boroughs to Follow (Post)
- TLC Tries Again on Failed Queens Commuter Van Route (News)
- 9-Month-Old in Critical Condition After Livery Cab Smashes Parked Car Onto Sidewalk (News)
- Port Authority Wants to Raise, Not Rebuild, Bayonne Bridge (WSJ, Transpo Nation)
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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