Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:46 AM EST on January 6, 2012
- Mark-Viverito: East Harlem Deserves the Same Safe Streets as Chelsea and Park Slope (News)
- Bloomberg Calls Subway Infrastructure “Inadequate” and Underfunded… (DNAinfo)
- …And Says It Behooves City Hall to Stay Out of Albany’s Problem (Cap NY)
- Motorist Hits and Kills Sheepshead Bay Deliveryman, Flees Scene (News)
- Staten Island Makes Drunk Driving a Priority as Arrests Drop in Rest of City (Post)
- Crain’s Names MTA a State of the State Loser
- Lefevre Family Lawsuit Against NYPD Picked Up By NYT, WSJ, Post
- Bill McKibben: Transit Workers Are the Face of Environmentalism (News)
- Free Fares for Transit Workers: Special Privilege or Fair Compensation? (NYT)
- MTA Lets Riders Know Its Plans for Winter Weather (Post)
- UES NIMBYs Continue to Oppose Elevator Access to Subway (DNAinfo)
- Andrea Bernstein and Brian Lehrer Discuss the Lack of Transit in Cuomo State of State (WNYC)
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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