Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:09 AM EDT on April 18, 2011
- Gas Hits $4 In New York State, Forcing Some To Reconsider Driving (News)
- Donohue: Instead of Promising Free Rides, Pols Must Find Money For MTA Capital Plan (News)
- Reliable Source Steve Cuozzo: Real Estate Industry Survey Proves Nobody Bikes (Post)
- Think the Earth Is Round? Try Telling the Post Editorial Page
- Police Union Deal Sets Up TWU Negotiations (And Jim Walden May Run For DA?) (Crain’s)
- Ticket Fixing Scandal Could Snare 400 Cops (Post, NYT)
- Cab Drivers and Owners Oppose Plans for Outer Borough Taxi Service (News)
- SUV Driver Jumps Curb in Park Slope, Sends Four Pedestrians to Hospital (Bklyn Paper, News)
- Thank You, CT Gov. Dannel Malloy, For Supporting Infrastructure Investment (WNYC)
- Midtown Pop-Up Café Barely Ekes Out Community Board Win (DNAinfo)
- Garbage on Sidewalk, Extra Parking Lane Make WaHi Greenway Access Dangerous (DNAinfo)
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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