Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:01 AM EST on February 15, 2012
- In Nine Prominent Cyclist Deaths, Police Don’t Charge Drivers (Thirteen)
- Transportation Nation Previews Today’s City Council Hearing on NYPD Traffic Enforcement
- Wagner College Comes Together to Remember Slain Cyclist R.J. Tillman (Advance)
- Jeanniot Jean, 71, Killed By Two Drivers While Crossing Flatbush to Meet Girlfriend (News)
- State Senate Restores Transit Tax Benefit Cut By Feds (Transpo Nation)
- Fort Greene Plaza Opponents Don’t Want to Drive an Extra Block (Bklyn Paper)
- Owner of Soon-to-Open Grocery Joins Merchants Against Jackson Heights Plaza (News)
- Upper East Side CB Worried Met Renovations Would Let People “Hang Out” There (DNAinfo)
- Things Get Heated Between Joe Lhota and Bill Perkins Over Subway Rats (NYT)
- Port Authority Bus Companies Sue DOT For Giving Megabus Free Curbside Space (DNAinfo)
- Tappan Zee Stakeholders Furious About Being Shut Out of Planning (Record)
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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