Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:09 AM EDT on March 23, 2011
- Gale Brewer to Introduce Car-Free Parks Bill in City Council (Post)
- On Brian Lehrer Today: NBBL Lawyer Jim Walden Will Make His Case Against PPW Lane
- Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson: “Sometimes a Bike Lane Is Just a Bike Lane” (HuffPo)
- Brewer, Rodriguez and Gentile Want Blinking Yellows in Central Park, But DOT Opposed (DNAinfo)
- NYPD Quickly Apologizes to Central Park Cyclists for Improper Speeding Tickets (NYT)
- MTA May Sell Off Headquarters to Help Close Budget Gap (WSJ)
- New York’s Infrastructure Gets Worst Report Card Ever (Transpo Nation)
- Irrational Opposition to Pop-Up Cafés Gets Post’s Attention
- Offboard Fare Collection to Start on 34th Street Buses This Summer (DNAinfo)
- As MTA Considers Banning Food, Litter Laws Already Go Unenforced (News)
- New NJ Transit Station Spurs Development in Wood-Ridge (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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