Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on August 29, 2011
- Most Subway and Bus Service Restored, But Metro-North and NJ Transit Down All Day (NYT, WSJ)
- Here’s Why MTA Closed the Transit System (Gothamist)
- Cabbies Stayed Open for Business (News)
- It’s Unofficially Official: Bloomberg Wants Mayor Quinn In 2013 (NYT)
- Bike Parking, Now Major Amenity, Appears in Real Estate Brochures and Sales Pitches (NYT)
- Transportation Alternatives Bike Ambassadors Sign Up 13,000 For Safe Cycling, Infrastructure (NYT)
- Tiny Union City, NJ, Already Densest City in U.S., Looks to Keep Growing (WSJ)
- Drunk Drivers Avoid Breath-Testing Devices By Putting Vehicle in Relative’s Name (News)
- Surgeon General: Don’t Let Your Hair Keep You From Exercising (NYT)
- The Times Remembers Sally Goodgold, Long-Time Urban Planning Activist
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
Streetsblog NYC will be on a light publishing schedule today.
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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