Skip to Content
Streetsblog New York City home
Streetsblog New York City home
Log In
Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

8:50 AM EDT on September 27, 2011

    • Cuomo Wants to Broker Deal, Not Sign Bill, on Livery Cabs (NYT, News)
    • DMV Dropping Vision Test For License Renewal, Trusts People to Self-Certify Eyesight (Post)
    • MTA Adds Two Years to Completion Date for East Side Access, as Feds Predicted (News, Post)
    • LIC Businesses Want More Free and More Subsidized On-Street Parking (News)
    • News: Since We Don't Trust Studies, Tinkering With 34th at All Could Only Conceivably Slow Traffic
    • The Post Doesn't Realize Community Input Already Required For Bike Projects
    • ...And Illustrates Story With Vignette of Man Hit By Cyclist, Without Serious Injury. In 2007. (Post)
    • MTA to Sell Real Estate, Including 370 Jay Street and Air Rights Over Bus Depot (WSJ)
    • Massapequa Park to Use Sensors For Electronic Parking Enforcement (Newsday)
    • Two Bronx Subway Stations Set For Renovations (News)

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

Noah Kazis
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.

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter

More from Streetsblog New York City

Subways

‘Gateway’ Drug: Trump Is Holding the Second Avenue Subway Hostage

The president blocked funds for the Second Avenue Subway during the government shutdown in October — and the MTA has still not received the money, sources said.

January 28, 2026
Streetsblog Empire StateGovernment Organizations

TRAIN IN VAIN: Amtrak Pulls Plug On Metro-North Expansion

All aboard? Not so fast. Amtrak is putting the brakes on an expansion of the Metro-North that would have extended service to Albany.

January 28, 2026
Criminal Crackdown on Cyclists 2025

Bushwick Panel Opposes NYPD Cycling Crackdown — But Board Chair Slams Newbies

A community board chair is calling into question the very role of community boards by saying his board doesn't speak for the community. Yes, he said the thinking part out loud.

January 28, 2026
Streetsblog USACar-free households

Survey: Most Americans Are Open To Ditching Their Cars

Automakers have spent a century and countless trillions of dollars making car-dependent living the American norm. But U.S. resident still aren't sold, a new survey suggests.

January 28, 2026
Today's Headlines

Wednesday’s Headlines: Plowed In Edition

It was still a mess out there. Plus other news.

January 28, 2026
Today's Headlines

Tuesday’s Headlines: The Storm Before the Calm Edition

What a mess (was Gersh actually right?!). Plus other news.

January 27, 2026
See all posts