Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on October 14, 2011
- EDC to Replace Yankee Stadium Lots With Housing, Retail — And Garages Will Still Be Bankrupt (News)
- Four Months Late, NYPD Releases Crash Data, Showing 4,813 Traffic Injuries in August (WSJ)
- US Attorney: City Taxi System Violates Americans With Disabilities Act (NYT, WSJ)
- For Championing MTA Payroll Tax Repeal, Lee Zeldin Earns 2011 “Oil Slick” Award (CapTon)
- Most MTA Elevators and Escalators Work, But Those Broken Rarely Get Fixed (NYT)
- Potential MTA Chief Joe Lhota Has the Support of Staten Island Republicans (Advance)
- De Blasio: Uncompetitive Bidding Lets School Bus Operators Take NYC For a Ride (News)
- MTA Hopes to Sell Bronx Property to Big Box Developer (News)
- Columbia Students Try to Improve Taxi Dispatching at JFK (WSJ)
- Here’s One We Haven’t Heard Before: Bikes Are Too Noisy (WPIX)
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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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