Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

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By Noah Kazis

8:58 AM EDT on July 1, 2011

Driver With Suspended License Backs Down Amsterdam Ave, Hits and Kills Senior (News, NYT)
Albany Had Good Session on Transpo; Cuomo Needs to Finish the Job (MTR)
Fort Greene Residents: Pedestrianizing Street Would Countrify New York (Brownstoner)
Upper East Side Claims Poverty to Avoid Fair Share of Garbage Trucking (NYT)
Port Authority Studies $250M Dollar Road Widening at Port Newark (Star-Ledger)
Lower East Side Garage Will Get Makeover, Remain Subsidized Public Parking (NYO)
LIRR Unions Amend Work Rules to Avoid Layoffs (YourNabe)
NYC Ranked Third-Greenest City in North America, On Strength of Transpo and Land Use (WSJ)
After Year of Requests, Columbia Street Residents Get New Bike Racks (Patch)

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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.

Today's Headlines

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