Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on April 6, 2011
- Inspector General Finds Rampant Abuse of State Parking Placards, to Call For Reform (News)
- Police Claim Muni-Meter Grace Period Bill Would Lead to Corruption and Violence (News, Post)
- FDNY to Extend Safe Driving Policy for Minor Calls to Brooklyn and Staten Island (News)
- Big Wheel Trike Outpaces 42nd Street Bus Through Midtown (News)
- Anthony Weiner Debates Himself Over Whether Bike Lanes Are “Progressive” (Observer)
- NYPD Blitz Doubled Bike Ticketing Rate in Brooklyn This February (Bklyn Paper)
- After Two Women Struck by Van, TriBeCa Lobbies for Safer Greenwich Street (DNAinfo)
- Sore Losers Want to Overturn CB 6 Endorsement of Turtle Bay Pop-Up Café (DNAinfo)
- Parking, Lot Size Restrictions Block Throggs Neck Medical Office From Opening (Bronx Times)
- Sheepshead Bay Community Board Nixes Request for Less Parking at New Development (Bklyn Courier)
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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