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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)

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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.

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