Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:05 AM EST on March 4, 2011
- If You Thought Dropping 34th St. Plaza Would Placate the Post, the News, or City Council, Think Again
- 34th Street BID: “Plaza Was a Problem for Some of Our Building Owners” (Crain’s)
- Did Macy’s Help Kill 34th St. Plaza Over Once-A-Year Parade on a Different Street? (Transpo Nation)
- After Getting Parking Ticket, Retired Firefighter Strikes Officer With Metal Pipe (Post)
- Man Puts Woman in Coma For Trying to Save a Parking Space (Post)
- SI Advance: Without Sidewalks or Transit, Cutting School Buses Endangers Students
- “Tomb of the Unknown Cyclist” Ghost Bike to Be Placed in Front of Brooklyn Borough Hall (Bklyn Paper)
- Presented with East Side Safety Plan, Manhattan CB 11 Worries About Losing Parking (DNAinfo)
- DOT Plan To Shift Maspeth Truck Traffic Off Local Roads Wins Praise (News)
- City Council Holds Hearing on “Pothole Pandemonium” (DNAinfo)
- Bike Champ Praises NYC Improvements, Urges Cyclists To Follow Rules (WSJ)
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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