Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

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By Noah Kazis

9:14 AM EST on January 7, 2011

Vacca Names Quinn and Reyna as Allies Against Sensible Parking Meter Rates (News)
Death of Rabbi Mosha Adler Doesn’t Slow Attacks on Boro Park Pedestrian Islands (CBS2)
The Brooklyn Bike Crackdown: Not Just One Precinct and Not Temporary (Post)
Astor Place Plan Will Return Street Space to Pedestrians; Some Worry About “Hooligans” (DNAinfo)
Christie Wants Port Authority Bailout and Debt, Not Gas Tax, to Pay For New Jersey’s Roads (NYT, WSJ)
The Guardian Profiles JSK — “Latter-Day Robin Hood” of NYC Streets
Push for Park Ave. Rezoning Brings Opportunity for TOD Around Metro-North Station (DNAinfo)
City Council Furious Over Subway Inspection Fraud (News)
Green Median Arrives on Ozone Park’s Conduit Avenue (News)
Brooklyn Street Flips Direction to Help Taxis Access Upscale Hotels (Bklyn Paper)
Don’t Let Anti-Bike Cranks Slow NYC’s Progress on Creating Safer, More Sustainable Streets (Villager)

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Noah Kazis

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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