Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on September 30, 2011
- UN Land Swap Close to Completion, Will Open Path for East Side Greenway In Midtown (NYT)
- Former NYPD Captain: Cop Code Says Ticket Fixing Just a Courtesy Unless You Take a Bribe (News)
- Equal Opportunity Tix Fix Police Don’t Care If You’re a Cop’s Brother or Half-Brother (News)
- Two Top Cuomo Deputies Want Chris Ward’s Job (Crain’s)
- One of Ward’s Legacies: Being Honest About the Consequences of Ignoring Infrastructure (MTR)
- Sunnyside Parking Changes Good For Businesses, Bad For Selfish All-Day Parkers (CBS 2)
- Another Bike-Share Demo, Another Set of Excited New Yorkers (DNAinfo)
- Feds Add $2.4 Million in Interest and Fees to NJ’s Bill For Canceling ARC Tunnel (AP)
- Task Force: Transportation Access Is Number One Issue Holding Back Rockaways (News)
- MTA Announces Next 31 Subway Platforms Slated For Cell Service (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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