Today’s Headlines

9:24 AM EST on February 9, 2011

Cy Vance, 19th Precinct Deny Responsibility for Enforcing Elle's Law (DNAinfo)
Citizen Activism Wins Stronger Charges Against Jason King's Killer (Gothamist)
Steven Levin Gets Behind Boerum Hill 20 MPH Plan (Post)
Letters to Editor Hit Back at Daily News Anti-DOT Smear Job Editorial (News)
375 Queens Express Bus Riders Sign Petition to Restore Service (WPIX)
With Parking Rules Back in Effect, Ticket Blitz Nets City $500K (City Room)
... But City Has Lost $7.5 Million From Parking Rule Suspensions (WSJ)
Pedestrian Killed After Unshoveled Islip Sidewalk Near LIRR Forces Him Into Street (WPIX)
City Council Blizzard Bills Include Crosswalk Clearance (News)
Nicole Gelinas: If Wealthy CT Wouldn't Invest in Trains During Boom Years, When Will We? (Post)

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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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