Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on July 8, 2011
- Queens Driver Critically Injures 92-Year-Old While Backing Up For Parking (ABC)
- Under Tix Fix Scrutiny, Bronx Cops Give Out Few Moving Violations (News)
- Marcia Kramer: Second Avenue Bike Lane Is Terrorist Threat (CBS 2)
- Brooklyn Bridge Park Access Plan Wins Unanimous CB 6 Committee Vote (Bklyn Paper)
- Komanoff: Police Must Release Crash Reports (Villager)
- Borough Taxi Plan Needs Additional Assembly Vote in Fall to Become Law (Transpo Nation)
- Even ESDC Can’t Get NYPD To Crack Down on Placard Abuse Near Atlantic Yards (News)
- Manhattan Has Nation’s Priciest Parking Garages, But Cheap Internationally (Crain’s)
- New Subway Line Maps Tested Out on 4, 5, R Lines (City Room)
- Meet Virginia Cedeno, a Rare Female Taxi Driver (NYT)
- Should New York Switch To Full Closures For Highway Repairs? (NYT)
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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