Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:57 AM EDT on June 29, 2011
- DOT to Remove Three Fort Hamilton Parkway Ped Islands, Add Painted Median (News)
- Manhattan CB 12 Endorses Bike Lane Study, Wants What They Have Downtown (DNAinfo)
- Canal Street Crash: Victim May Not Survive, Police Claim He Turned Into Car’s Path (News)
- MTA Staff Encouraging Upper East Siders to Advocate for Capital Funding (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Tea Leaves: Ward Loyalist Leaves Port Authority (Daily Politics)
- Queens Residents Remember Anniversary of 2010 Service Cuts (News)
- Ruiz: Street Hail Plan Makes “Bridge People” Into Real New Yorkers (News)
- Target of Newest NYPD Ticket Blitz: Food Trucks (NYT)
- False Alarms Slow MTA Response to Elevator Breakdowns (News)
- Times Story on European Anti-Car Policies Bolstered With Strong Follow-Ups (Times 1, 2)
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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