Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on September 26, 2011
- Tix Fix Cops Reject Plea Deal, Allege Prosecutors Sparing Top NYPD Brass (News)
- Port Authority Toll Hike: Bad for Garages, Good for Traffic-Ravaged Streets (Post)
- Ben Fried and Dr. Linda Prine: Safer Streets for Biking Are Safer for Walking, Too (News)
- DOT Refuses Request From Electeds to Allow Midday Loading in 34th Street Bus Lane (DNAinfo)
- Yankee Stadium Parking Debacle Deepens; Upside: Multiple Lots May Be Redeveloped (Transpo Nation)
- Does Andrew Cuomo Have a Plan to Pay For $30 Billion In Infrastructure? (Capitol)
- Speaker Silver and IDC Chair Jeff Klein Urge Cuomo to Sign Livery Law (News 1, 2)
- News: Taxi Medallion Prices Rose 1,000 Percent. Now It’s Time For Outer-Borough Service
- Bill De Blasio Blasts City For Treating Potholes and Sinkholes Differently (News)
- The Times Asks: Subway Already Has 200 Stations With Cell Service. Will Six More Change Everything?
- After Hit-And-Run Driver Kills Queens Woman, Daughter Begs Driver to Turn Himself In (Post)
- So Much for “Better Bike Lanes” – Jim Walden Now a National Spokesman for Killing Bikeways (Reuters)
- Gabe Pressman’s Observation of Chaos on NYC Streets Seems Limited to Bike Lanes (NBC)
- Munimeters Spark Times Ode to Lost Art of Ignoring Parking Time Limits
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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