Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:16 AM EDT on May 4, 2011
- Taxi of Tomorrow Will Be Nissan: More Fuel-Efficient, With Sliding Doors (NYT, Crain’s)
- DOT Launches Major Study of Chinatown Parking, Will Be Used to Fight Congestion (DNAinfo)
- Eight Inwood Intersections to Get Safety Fixes, Six More Slated for Capital Projects (DNAinfo)
- Hasidim Harassing, Physically Assaulting Cyclists Who Continue to Use Bedford Ave (Bklyn Paper)
- NYT Survey Finds Dizzying Diversity of Illegal Placards, But Not One Ticket (City Room)
- Senate Bill Would Allow Police to Pull Over Texting Drivers (Post)
- Have You Been Caught In NYPD’s Bike Blitz? Join Transpo Nation‘s Crowdsourcing Effort
- Remember, Second Ave Subway Isn’t Only Project Behind Schedule, Over Budget (LoHud)
- Sheepshead Bay CB Thinks Speeding Is What Defines Real New Yorkers (L Mag)
- Architects Look Forward to Day When Cars Can Replace Bees As Pollinators (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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