Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on August 16, 2011
- Somehow, Daily News Comes Away From Manhattan Bridge Ride and Equates Cyclists to Mack Trucks
- 300 Outer-Borough Parking Spaces to Get Pay-By-Phone Pilot (Post, News)
- Toll Hikes Driven By Threatened Downgrade Of Port Authority’s Growing Debt Load (WSJ)
- City Council Forces DOT to Walk Back Staten Island Parking Lot Price Hike (SILive)
- Community Board Asks DOT for Chelsea Bike Lanes, Local Businessman Complains (Post)
- Bill Hammond: Cuomo’s Political Virtuosity Hasn’t Extended to Port Authority (News)
- Kabuki? As Port Authority Hearings Start, Ward Stands Behind $4 Hikes, Govs Want Reduction (Post)
- Eastern Queens Leaders Want Bus Service Restored, Feel Slighted by MTA (News)
- Teen’s Leg Broken While Saving Woman From 125th Street Hit-and-Run Driver (DNAinfo)
- Putting a Price on Parking: Midtown Lot Sells For $21 Million (WSJ)
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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