Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on September 14, 2011
- Election Results: Bob Turner Takes Weiner’s Seat, Dem Machine Wins 54th Assembly District (NYT 1, 2)
- Van Driver Kills East Harlem Man Crossing 125th Street, Three Blocks From Home (DNAinfo)
- Taxi Industry Keeps Livery Cab Bill Off Cuomo’s Desk, Convinces Sponsor To Chop By Two-Thirds (Post)
- MTA Spends $500K Just to Study Repairs on Barely-Used Port Jervis Line (Transpo Nation)
- You Won’t Have Marty Markowitz to Kick Around Anymore (Post)
- Who’s Out of Touch With NYers on Bike Policy: City Hall or the Observer?
- The New York Times Ongoing Search for Anti-Bike Cranks Goes International
- TWU Storms MTA Lobby For Rally as Labor Negotiations Commence (News)
- Livery Cab Driver Hits and Kills Man Running Across FDR Drive (DNAinfo)
- College-Bound Hit-And-Run Victim Defies Odds With Return to Health (News)
- Cops Take Taxi Door Home as Trophy After 34th Street Smash-Up With Cab (Post)
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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