Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:55 AM EDT on September 23, 2011
- Bloomberg, Minority Politicians Push Back on Taxi Industry, Fight For Livery Cab Bill (NYT, News)
- Internal Affairs, Meant To Prosecute Tix Fix, Leaked Details to Cops Instead (NYT)
- Cuomo’s Schedules Show No Meetings on Transit, Few on Transportation (Transpo Nation)
- “Rave Reviews” For Bike-Share at Demonstration in Bowling Green (DNAinfo)
- Andrea Peyser Locks Up a Pulitzer With Exposé on Massive Bike Psycho Conspiracy (Post)
- Judge: Parking Placards Not Part of Teachers’ Compensation Package (News)
- Cuomo and Christie Dined Together Days Before Feigning Surprise Over Port Authority Tolls (News)
- Tunnels Complete For Second Avenue Subway; Just Add Stations, Tracks and Trains (Post, WSJ)
- High Fares, Bus Service Top Issues at Jamaica Transit Forum (QChron)
- Cell Service Comes to Six Subway Stations Next Week (News, Post)
- Boerum Hill Rezoning Already Blocking Development of Artist Housing (Bklyn Paper)
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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