Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:17 AM EDT on May 16, 2011
- Likely Bloomberg Taxi Plan: 1,500 New Medallions Plus 6,000 Borough-Only Cabs (Post)
- Port Authority Tolls Likely to Rise, But What Will Christie Buy With the Revenue? (NYT)
- Another Driver Traveling at Highway Speed Crashes Off Queensboro Bridge Ramp (Post)
- Jim Walden Won’t Bike in NYC With His Three Young Kids (Crain’s)
- On New Buses, Ceilings Too Low and Seats Too Small, Says Post
- Long Island Teen Kills 9-Year-Old on Bike While Learning to Drive (Post)
- Cab Driver Barrels Into Midtown Starbucks (Gothamist)
- Helen Marshall OKs 600 Parking Space Reduction for Long Island City Office Tower (Queens Chron)
- Mid-Block Crosswalks Could Connect Midtown’s Network of Private Plazas (DNAinfo)
- Ride Along With the Livery Cab Crackdown (Post)
- Greenwich Village Residents Like Idea of Plaza, Terrified of “Revelers” Sitting Down (Villager)
- New Hopstop Feature Counts Calories Burned While Walking to Transit (Post)
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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