Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:53 AM EDT on June 10, 2011
- Defense Attorneys: NYPD Tix Fix Scandal Undermining Justice System (News)
- Chuck Schumer Speaks Up for Safety-Enhancing Road Diets — on Long Island (Newsday, MTR)
- Bloomberg: Law-Abiding Bike Culture Will Arise From Public Pressure (Transpo Nation)
- Melissa Rosales, Eric Ulrich Constituent, Responds to “Get A Life” Tweet (Bklyn Spoke)
- Drunk Driving Cop Avoids Night in Jail Thanks to Tix Fix (News)
- Westchester, Putnam Brace For Federal Transpo Cuts, Especially on Buses and Bikes (LoHud)
- In Hudson Valley, Drunk Driving Arrests Up, Fatalities Flat (LoHud)
- Bay Ridge Summer Streets Topic of Latest Brooklyn Paper Point/Counterpoint
- Clean Public Space an Amenity Limited to Affluent Section of Red Hook (News)
- To Beat the Heat, Avoid Franklin Ave Shuttle and C Train (News)
- PPW Cycling “Rumble Strips” Are Here (WYDNKBYANM)
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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