Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on April 11, 2011
- 750 Cyclists, Young and Old, Ride PPW to Support the Lane (Patch, Bklyn Paper, Bklyn Spoke, WYDNK)
- More MTA Budget Trouble: Federal Cuts Likely, Golden Wants $81M Taxi Surcharge Cut (Crain’s)
- The Daily News Wants Cuomo to Go Further on Placard Reform
- Midtown Pop-Up Café Wins Committee Vote at CB 5 (DNAinfo)
- Metro-North Has Secret Test Car For Onboard Wi-Fi (Post)
- Feds Give NJ $38.5M to Upgrade Bridge Needed for ARC Replacement (Transpo Nation)
- Historical Photos: See the Brooklyn Bridge When It Was Mainly Carrying Transit (Brownstoner)
- More Tales From the Crackdown: Enforcing Stop Signs at Empty Intersections (Gothamist)
- Police Maintain 2:1 Officer to Rider Ratio at Critical Mass (Village Voice)
- NYPD Parking Ticket Scandal Could Ensnare 40 Cops, Two Dozen For Felonies (News)
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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