Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:19 AM EDT on April 20, 2011
- More Than Petty Corruption: Harlem Precinct Had Policy to Not Ticket Double Parkers (News)
- Revived Congestion Pricing Push Has No Flag-Bearer in Legislature (Crain’s)
- DOT Gives Red Hook Streetcar Thumbs Down Over High Cost (Transpo Nation)
- Park Slope Dead End to Become Weekday Plaza For Middle School Students (Bklyn Paper)
- Helpful Tip for Avoiding Bike Crackdown: Win an Academy Award (Post)
- … Steve Cuozzo Pivots to Another Rant About JSK (Post)
- Dmitry Gudkov Posts a Photographic Response to Cuozzo’s Bike Boom Denialism
- Drunk Sanitation Worker Smashes Garbage Truck Into Oncoming Vehicle (News)
- Will Flushing Meadows Park Turn Into Parking Lot During US Open? (News)
- High School Senior Petitions For Restored Express Bus Service From Astoria (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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