Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EST on December 7, 2011
- NYT: If Cuomo Cuts Payroll Tax, He Must Ensure MTA Is Reimbursed and That Funding Is Secure
- For All the MTA Payroll Tax Details, Head to Capital Tonight
- Lefevre Family Just Wants the Truth About Son’s Death, and NYPD Won’t Give It to Them (NYT)
- Denise Richardson on MTA Tax Cut: Cuomo Preparing Return to 80s Disinvestment (WSJ)
- Silent on the Details, Daily News Endorses Cuomo Infrastructure Plan
- Juan Gonzalez: Cost Overruns Creep Up for Hudson Yards, 7 Train Extension (News)
- School Bus Driver in Fatal Crash Drags Bronx Pedestrian for Minutes; No Charges (News)
- Tudor City Residents Want to Turn Dead End Into Plaza, Have DOT Support (DNAinfo)
- After Xmas Blizzard, MTA Added Consumer Advocates and Emergency Response Training (NYT)
- Special Toll Deal for Staten Island Rebuffed by Port Authority, New Jersey (Advance)
- Victoria’s Secret Boots Parking Garage From Its Basement, Will Set Up Runway (Post)
- The Ever-Growing Number of NYC Pedestrians Is Just Enormous (NYT)
- NYC Real Estate Industry Should Make Peace With Parking Maximums (Atlantic Cities)
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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