Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:53 AM EDT on October 7, 2011
- Tix Fix Whistleblower Becomes Pariah on the Force (News)
- Tix Fix Cop Didn’t Care Dad and Friends Were Guilty, Now Considered Non-credible Witness (News)
- Scott Stringer, Margaret Chin, TriBeCa Parents Push for Stop Sign At Dangerous Intersection (DNAinfo)
- Editorial: Blame Port Authority, Governors and Anti-Toll Public For Axing Bus Garage (NorthJersey.com)
- Insiders on Likely Port Authority Pick Pat Foye: “Is This Really the Best That Cuomo Can Do?” (Crain’s)
- Cuomo Won’t Punish Housing Commish For DWI Conviction (News)
- Perversely, Law Enforcement Punishes Legit Dollar Vans the Most (Atlantic)
- Observer Picks Up NBBL Files, Notes Irony of Avid Cyclist Schumer Opposing Lane
- No One Does NIMBYism Like The Upper East Side (DNAinfo)
- Prospect Park West Bike Lane Opponent Calls For New Cross-Brooklyn Expressway (HuffPo)
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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