Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EST on February 8, 2012
- Delancey Street Improvements Likely to Be Small But Fast (DNAinfo)
- Port Authority Audit, Meant to Smear Ex-Director, Finds Big Overruns (Capital NY)
- More Slow Zone Applications: Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Park Slope (Bklyn Ink)
- Driver Hits and Kills 89-Year-Old In Astoria, Tries to Flee Scene (News)
- Bay Ridge Pols and Merchants Try Again for Summer Streets (Bklyn Paper)
- Advocate Makes Case For Bikes Over Trains on Queens Rockaway Branch (News)
- Four Teams Cleared to Bid on Tappan Zee Reconstruction (Record)
- Patch: Bring Bike-Share to Forest Hills?
- New York Gas Prices Could Top $4 a Gallon This Summer (Post)
- The Met Has Big Plans For Its Sidewalks (NYT)
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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