Today’s Headlines

8:54 AM EDT on May 27, 2011

Cuomo Preparing to Fire Respected Port Authority Chief Chris Ward (Post)
Transportation Nation Crowdsourcing Project Maps And Chronicles NYPD Bike Blitz
Christie Pulls New Jersey Out of Regional Cap-And-Trade Program (NYT)
Ticket Fixing And Cop Credibility Dominate Drunk Driving Trial (NYT, News)
Market Price for Parking Under Your Own Roof in Chelsea: $200,000 (NYT)
Livery Cab Drivers Oppose Latest Version of Bloomberg Plan For Borough Taxis (News)
State Releases Atlantic Yards Traffic Changes (Bklyn Paper)
East River Ferry Service, With $9.3M Subsidy and $4 Fares, to Launch in June (Bklyn Paper)
Upper East Siders Want Safe Pedestrian Connection to East River Esplanade (DNAinfo)
MTA Bus Purchases Boon to Local Upstate Economy (Press-Republican)
Prospect Park Encounter Gives Bike Snob a Moment of Clarity About the Bikelash

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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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