Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on September 21, 2011
- Yankee Stadium Parking Operator Agrees to Build Hotel at Site of Largest Garage (News, Post)
- Right On Cue, Tabloid Editorials Twist Hunter Bike/Ped Crash Study (News, Post)
- Taxi Industry Lobbying Wins Defectors From Livery Bill: Vito Lopez and Bill DeBlasio (Post, CapTon)
- Cab Companies Sent $30,000 to Cuomo Over The Summer (News)
- DOT Won’t Narrow Lanes From Highway Width on Deadly Adam Clayton Powell Blvd (DNAinfo)
- CB 6 Committee Unanimously Endorses Baruch Plan for Pedestrianized 25th Street (DNAinfo)
- Homeless Find Broadway Plazas Safest Place to Spend the Night (DNAinfo)
- Suffolk County Exec: MTA Should Declare State of Emergency to Scrap Union Contracts (Newsday)
- Tougher Texting Law Leads to 43 Percent Increase in Tickets (LoHud)
- Poll Shows Mega-Support for Completing East Side Greenway With UN Land Deal (Crain’s)
- More Coverage of Yesterday’s Labor-Led Lockbox Rally (NY1, AMNY)
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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