Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EST on January 19, 2011
- State of the City Preview: Mayor Wants to Legalize Hailing Livery Cabs in Outer Boroughs (Daily Politics)
- … But Upper Manhattan Shut Out of Bloomberg’s Proposal (DNAinfo)
- Surprising No One, Livery Cab Drivers Support Plan, Yellow Cab Drivers Furious (CBS 2)
- Daily News Deems East Side SBS a Success
- Schumer and Christie Duke It Out Over Senator’s ARC Speech (Transpo Nation 1, 2, 3)
- Business Lobby Proposes Public-Private Partnership for ARC (Crain’s)
- Bike Licensing Has at Least One Supporter on Park Slope Community Board (Bklyn Paper)
- Ydanis Rodriguez Wants GPS to Aid His Alternate Side Parking Reform (NY1)
- Waste Management Firm Fights City Plan to Ship Trash and Cut Truck Traffic (News)
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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