Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EDT on March 18, 2011
- Does This Mean Ray Kelly Is Running For Mayor? (Observer)
- 12 of 14 Queens Council Members Support Garodnick Bill For Bar Codes on Placards (QChron)
- Kruger Corruption Case Taints Developer Forest City Ratner (NYT, Post 1, 2)
- A Better Name for Brooklyn CB 18 Might Be “The Carl Kruger Neighborhood Clubhouse” (Bklyn Paper)
- Tappan Zee In Worse Shape Than Thought, Jacking Up Cost of Repairs (LoHud)
- State Suspends License of Casino Bus Driver Ophadell Williams (NYT)
- Van Catches Fire in Midtown, Possibly From Bomb (Gothamist)
- No One Comes Out Looking Good in This Unicycles-on-the-Sidewalk Lawsuit (News)
- Residents of Staten Island’s South Shore Want Better Bus Service, Ferries (SILive)
- Noisy, Double-Parked FreshDirect Trucks Anger Upper West Siders (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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