Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EST on December 9, 2011
- Big Box Stores: In Urban Areas, Transit Now More Important Than Parking (Globe St)
- Somehow, East Harlem’s Wide Support for Bike Lanes Doesn’t Appear in Daily News Article
- Juan Gonzalez: Why Won’t Cuomo Sign Taxi Bill, Help Low-Income Workers? (News)
- More Coverage of 2011’s Eight Percent Increase in Cycling (NYT, Observer)
- TransAlt Is Going After Transit-Starving Electeds, Guns Blazing (Crain’s)
- Long Island Regional Grant Goes to Suburban Smart Growth Projects (NYT)
- Bob Turner’s Priorities as Congressman: Take Toll Off Cross Bay Bridge (News)
- Staten Islanders Get Toll Discount Expanded, But Politicians Still Want More (Advance)
- Driver Injures Cyclist at Intersection Where Protected Bike Lane Was Supposed to Go (Bklynian)
- Drunk NYPD Officer Drives Wrong Way on Highway For Eight Miles (Post)
- Port Authority Begins $1B Replacement of GWB Suspender Ropes (NYT)
- Marty Markowitz Urges Cuomo to Resume Work on BQE and Gowanus (Post)
- Check Out What 125th Street Looked Like in 1897 (Harlem Bespoke)
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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