Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:57 AM EST on November 14, 2011
- LI Bus Privatization Deal Slashes Funding, Allows Huge Service Cuts (Transpo Nation, MTR)
- MTA to Try Overnight or Week-Long Repair Blitzes on Subways, Shutting Down Service (News)
- Staten Island Legislators Demand 81% Toll Cut on Bridges, No Cross-Subsidies (Advance)
- Driver Kills Italian Jazz Vocalist Daniela D’Ercole on UWS; NYPD: “No Criminality” (NBC)
- Jack Vanleuvan Dies From Cop Car Crash Injuries (Post)
- Insurer Claims No Responsibility for Delivery Cyclist Hitting Pedestrian (Post)
- Jarrett Murphy Explains Who the Victims of Ticket Fixing Are (City Limits)
- Who’s Afraid of 34th Street Loading Zones? The Daily News Editorial Board
- Joe Lhota’s First Official Act: Ask DAs to Stop Transit Worker Assaults (News)
- New Mid-Block Crosswalk Approved for 57th Street (DNAinfo)
- Less Street Cleaning, More World Peace? (NYT)
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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