Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:56 AM EST on January 11, 2012
- Real-Time Bus Info Launches for All of Staten Island (Transpo Nation)
- Even Police-Friendly Peter Vallone Thinks NYPD Traffic Enforcement Inadequate (Voice)
- After Drunk Driver Nearly Kills Teen, City Island Forces Bar to Close (News)
- Another Bike/Ped Crash on Prospect Park Downhill (Bklyn Paper)
- Joe Lhota Declares Self “Rider-Chairman,” Vows to Focus on Subway Eyesores (News)
- News: Lhota Must Find New Money to Pay for MTA Capital Plan, Protect Existing Revenues
- Restoring MTA’s Image Top Priority for Lhota (Transpo Nation)
- Lhota Claims Good Relationship With Cuomo, Administration (CapTon)
- Lhota Could Not Be Better Prepared to Take On Subway Rat Problem (Post)
- MTA Labor Demands Include Cuts to Health and Vacation Days (Post)
- In Garment District, Parking Is Latest Conflict Between Residents and Industry (DNAinfo)
- City Council-Created Street Closure Map Goes Live (DNAinfo)
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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