Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:11 AM EST on February 14, 2011
- House Republican Budget Would Cut Another $73 Million from MTA (AMNY)
- Ambulance Footage Is Marcia Kramer’s Weapon of Choice Against Safer Streets (CBS2)
- How to Get Your Name in the Daily News: Call 311 and Complain About Cyclists for an Hour
- “No Impact Man” On Bike Lanes: “It Would Make My Neighborhood Safer For My Little Girl” (News)
- Park Slope Bike Lane Discussion Tabled; Brooklyn Paper and Norman Steisel See PPW Politics At Work
- NYPD Bike Blitz Hands Out Huge Number of Tickets to Central Park Cyclists (Gothamist)
- The NY Sun Is Back and Running an Anti-Bike Screed From Riverdale Review Publisher Andy Wolf
- Plan for High-Rise Development Parallel to Sheridan Could Affect Teardown Decision (News)
- Donohue: No Need to Halt Subways for Safety, Just Install a Few Platform Doors (News)
- If NJ Transit Rider Rex Ryan Had Supported ARC, Could Christie Have Said No? (Gothamist)
- Downtown Segment of East River Esplanade Set to Open This Summer (NY1)
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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