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Today’s Headlines

8:56 AM EDT on June 20, 2011

    • In Honor of Slain Husband, Mary Beth Kelly Pushes For Safer Streets (News)
    • Circumventing City Council, Bloomberg Brings Livery Cab Street Hail Plan to Albany (WSJ, NYT)
    • Yonkers Luxury New Urbanist Development Advertises Walkability, Transit Access (News)
    • Teen Crashes Car Into Brooklyn Subway Station During Driving Lesson (Post)
    • Major Car Crashes Injure Six Each In Chelsea, Upper West Side (DNAinfo 1, 2)
    • Yankee Stadium Parking Also a Debacle From Financial Perspective (Felix Salmon)
    • Schumer: Give Bus Companies Easy-To-Understand Safety Grades (News)
    • NYPD Officers Now Driving Across Williamsburg Bridge Bike Path (Bowery Boogie)
    • Pace University Wants To Redesign Downtown Plaza With Seating, Event Space (Downtown Express)
    • Teaching Adults to Ride a Bike Is Empowering (NYT)

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Noah Kazis
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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