Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on July 13, 2011
- Bloomberg on Car-Free Central Park: We’re Studying It; Impact Would Be Small (DNAinfo, Transpo Nation)
- Marcia Kramer, Livable Streets Advocate? (CBS 2)
- Quinn Tops Mayoral Candidates In Early Cash Race (NYT)
- More on NBBL’s Latest Legal Gambit: Subpoenas to DOT, Brad Lander (Transpo Nation)
- City Adds 70 Electric Cars to Fleet (Post)
- Nicole Gelinas: Freeze Wages At MTA For Next Three Years (Post)
- Squadron: Add Weekend Service to Crowded L and F Trains (Eagle)
- Second Avenue Subway Construction Moves Apace, Threatened By Budget Deficits (News)
- Long Island Downtown Revitalization Plan Draws NIMBYs Opposed to All Apartments (Newsday)
- How Do You Mark Prospect Park Lanes for Bikes & Peds When Cars Rule at Rush Hour? (Bklyn Paper)
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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