Today’s Headlines

8:59 AM EDT on August 5, 2011

Goldsmith Departure Stems From Blizzard Fallout (NYT, Post, Transpo Nation)
Cops Watch Drivers Speed Through Reds Rather Than Deal With Tix Fix Fallout (Post)
NYPD Owes $1M in Unpaid Parking Tickets... And That's Only From When They Get Caught (DNAinfo)
More Parking Spaces Than Apartments in Downtown Flushing Development (News)
Port Authority Skyscraper Would Fund Terminal Upgrades, But Deal Is on The Rocks (WSJ)
Vacca Attacks MTA For Slow Express Bus Service, Longs for Old Private Operators (Bronx Times)
Republican Assembly Member: Slash Salary for MTA Chief (Warwick Advertiser)
More Coverage of This Week's PPW Bike Lane Case Hearing (NYO)
Whitestone Merchants Think Car Parking Is Better for Their Business Than a Bus Stop (Queens Chron)
Rehab Work Nearly Complete on Newkirk Plaza (Ditmas Park Blog)

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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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