Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:52 AM EDT on November 4, 2011
- DA Charges Postal Worker With Leaving Scene of Crash in Marilyn Dershowitz Killing (Post)
- City Council Passes Lew Fidler’s Bike Lanes-Only Community Outreach Bill (Observer)
- Cuomo Holds “Taxi Summit” Today, But Bloomberg Plan Still in Limbo (WSJ)
- Upper East Siders Want Bike-Share to Make East River Accessible (DNAinfo)
- Even the Post Can’t Complain About Bike-Share’s Profit-Turning Business Model
- Pelham Bay Merchants Don’t Want to Clean Expanded, Safer Sidewalks (BxTimes)
- Former Nyack Mayor: Transit-Free Tappan Zee “Taxation Without Transportation” (Nyack News/Views)
- Pat Foye, Now in Charge of PA Infrastructure, Thinks Low Taxes Key to Prosperity (Record)
- MTA Can’t Find Honest Company For Subway Radio Contract (Post)
- National Cycling Association Proposes Velodrome for Kingsbridge Armory (News)
- China Returns to Cycling Roots With Mega-Bike-Share Projects, New Bike Lanes (ClimateWire)
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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