Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:54 AM EDT on June 8, 2011
- Weiner Scandal Leaves Bill de Blasio as the 2013 Anti-Bike Lane Candidate (Transpo Nation)
- Christie Denies Okaying Reported $2 Port Authority Toll Hike (Post, Star-Ledger)
- 181st Street Plan Improves Ped Safety, But Lacks Proposed Bus Lanes (DNAinfo)
- To Attract Better Staff and Clients, UBS Considers Move From Stamford Back to New York (NYT)
- Flushing Main Street Subway Station Joins Top Ten Busiest (City Room)
- Brooklyn Man Killed in Hit-And-Run After Fight on Sidewalk (News)
- Turn Traffic Lane Into Metered Parking, Says Sunnyside BID (News)
- Second Leg of High Line Opens, Doubling Elevated Park in Length (News, Post)
- New York Now Officially Second Tier in Bike Lane Ambition (Sun-Times, Tribune)
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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