Skip to Content
Streetsblog New York City home
Streetsblog New York City home
Log In
Streetsblog

Today’s Headlines

8:56 AM EDT on October 24, 2011

    • Bridge Tolls Back on Albany Agenda, Queens Legislator Already Organizing in Opposition (Cap'n Transit)
    • Senators Stewart-Cousins, Carlucci Push Back Against 1950s Design for Tappan Zee Bridge (LoHud)
    • Nyack Deputy Mayor: "No Trains, No Buses, No Bikes? No Bridge!" (Nyack News and Views)
    • News: Joe Lhota Must Hold Firm Against Fare Hikes, Get Cuomo and Legislature to Fund MTA
    • Times: Lhota and Foye Lack Expertise of Walder and Ward, But at Least Governor Will Return Their Calls
    • Municipal Parking Lots Near Connecticut Metro-North Stations Over-Subsidized, Oversubscribed (WSJ)
    • Crash Victim Sues Car Rental Company for Giving Vehicle to 90-Year-Old Without New Vision Test (Post)
    • Brooklyn Paper Pens Tribute to Artist Mathieu Lefevre, Fourth Williamsburg Cyclist Killed in Four Months
    • Schielle Hagan Fought Against Putnam Pedestrian Plaza, Sits There Just the Same (Patch)
    • Two Trains Derail on 6 Line, Snarling Subway Service (WNYC)
    • Resident Discount for Manhattan Parking: Probably Not Unconstitutional (NYT)

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

Lawsuits

Here’s Everything Wrong With the Judge’s Order to Rip Up the 31st Street Protected Bike Lane

A Queens judge overstepped her jurisdiction when she ordered the city to rip up a protected bike lane in Astoria, experts said.

December 9, 2025
MTA

MTA Still Won’t Embrace Open Gangway Subway Cars

The see-through cars have been standard across the globe for a generation, but to the MTA, it's still untested technology.

December 9, 2025
Penn Station

How Much Will New Yorkers Pay For Trump’s Penn Station Redevelopment Scheme?

New Yorkers could wind up paying twice for the new Penn Station: once when Amtrak comes asking for money and then when a private developer makes their money back from the project.

December 9, 2025
Today's Headlines

Tuesday’s Headlines: Clearing the Air Edition

We've been clear that congestion pricing is working. Turns out, congestion pricing was, too! Plus other news.

December 9, 2025
Traffic Enforcement

NYPD Finds Mysterious Corpse in Car With Illegal Tints Parked at a Hydrant Near Stationhouse

The discovery is a gruesome demonstration of the NYPD's systemic failure to enforce parking rules around its own station houses.

December 8, 2025
NYPD

Who Rides on the Sidewalk? To NYPD, Just Blacks and Hispanics

The NYPD has ramped up its enforcement against cyclists for squeezing pedestrians, but in a very suspect manner.

December 8, 2025
See all posts