Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on October 10, 2011
- Service Cuts Continue: MTA to Run Fewer Trains on Minor Holidays (Post)
- Tabs Praise Chris Ward’s Legacy, But Will They Heed His Parting Words? (Post, News)
- East Side NIMBYs Still Kvetching About Scaled-Back 34th Street Bus Improvements (DNAinfo)
- Greenpoint Avenue Bike Lane on Ice as CB 1 Frets Over 50 Parking Spaces (Brownstoner)
- East Bronx Residents Prefer Parking to Pedestrian Safety at Bus Stops (Bx Times)
- Drawbridge Failure Forces Metro-North to Shuttle Bus Passengers Over River (NYT)
- NYT‘s “Complaint Box” Feature Turns to Electric Bicycles
- After Six Weeks in Coma, Crash Victim Cycling Towards Recovery (News)
- Anti-Idling Law Not Being Enforced in Front of Mario Batali’s Restaurant (Post)
- Daily News: East Side Greenway Plan Good for New York
- Victims of Urban Renewal Hold Reunion 50 Years After Displacement (NYT)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
Streetsblog NYC will be on a light publishing schedule today.
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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