Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EST on November 22, 2011
- Cuomo Looks to Labor Pension Funds, Including UFT and 32BJ, to Finance Tappan Zee (WSJ)
- Chuck Schumer Sides With Staten Islanders Seeking Special Deal on Tolls (Advance)
- Scott Stringer: Many Neighborhoods in Need of 20 MPH Zone (Post)
- Chris Ward: “We Have to Toll the East River Bridges” (Capital NY)
- Christie Transportation Commissioner Explains His Side in ARC Debacle (Star-Ledger)
- Central Park Off-Leash Hours Dangerously Overlap With Peak Cycling Times (WSJ)
- Borough Park Parking Meters to Shut Off Two Hours Earlier on Friday Nights (Jewish Week)
- Connecticut Wins Funding for Intercity BRT System (Transpo Nation)
- Former Sanitation Worker Privatizes Part of Street, Somehow Escapes Ticketing (Post)
- Bronxites Demand Bus Shelter Be Restored Before Construction Complete (News)
- Randy Mastro and Jim Walden Fire Shot Across the Bow of Occupy Milk Burger (On the Case)
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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