Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
9:16 AM EST on January 13, 2011
- Bronx Docs Say Respiratory Ailments a Leading Health Threat (News)
- Thorough Street Plowing Brings Noise Complaints, Discretionary Driving (Post)
- More Crackdown Confusion: Cops May Not Know Bike Laws, But Cyclists Damn Well Better (L Mag)
- Speaking of Confusion, Manhattan CB 8 Holds Hearing on Electric Bikes (Our Town)
- Proposed Apartments for Downtown Flushing to Sport 100 Percent Parking Ratio (Crain’s)
- Queens Crap Notes Hypocrisy of Bloomberg EDC Retail Development Strategy (via Sheepshead Bites)
- News Sources Say Cuomo Can’t Find Anyone to Head State Economic Development Agency
- Police Academy Hangs Bogus Signage to Commandeer Gramercy Parking? (News)
- MTR Breaks Down the Congressional Threat to Transpo Funding
- Cap’n Transit Ranks Regional VMT, Ponders Energy Overkill
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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