Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:57 AM EDT on June 15, 2011
- Chris Ward’s Job Still In Danger, Despite WTC and Aviation Successes (Observer)
- Businesses Complain About Congestion at Redesigned Queens Plaza, Still Under Construction (News)
- Legislature Passes Own Version of Distracted Driving Legislation, Not Cuomo’s (DemChron)
- Long Island Driver Hits and Kills Pedestrian in Deer Park (Newsday)
- Jersey City Seniors Most Able in State to Remain Mobile After They Stop Driving (Star-Ledger)
- Top Planner Helps Ralph Gardner Exorcise Irrational Lifelong Hate of E. 86th Street (WSJ)
- Metro-North Continues Rollout of New Cars on New Haven Line (LoHud)
- Photos: Downtown Brooklyn Public Plaza Nearly Complete (Brownstoner)
- ConEd Says It Can’t Fix Badly Needed Streetlight Because of Parking Regulations (News)
- The Brooklyn Spoke Compendium of Bike Lane Doublespeak
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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