Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:10 AM EDT on April 13, 2011
- Bay Ridge Pkwy Lane Opposition: Recchia, Gentile, Abbate, Brook-Krasny and De Blasio (NYT)
- Baruch College Proposes Pedestrianized Block of 25th St., Has Support of Student Gov’t (DNAinfo)
- Flushing Development Corp. Wants Housing on Municipal Parking Lot, Lower Parking Minimums (NYT)
- Federal Budget Deal Could Hit MTA Hard, Warns Nadler (News)
- The Post Finds NYC’s Low Census Cycling Numbers and Runs With Them
- New Upper Deck for Verrazano Will Widen Lanes, Add Bus/HOV Lane (Post)
- Bloomberg Cuts Funding for Waste Transfer Stations, Keeping Garbage on Trucks Not Barges (News)
- New Rochelle Considers Bike Parking Ordinance (LoHud)
- UK Holding Same Debate as NYC Over Targeting Dangerous Cyclists (Economist)
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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