Today’s Headlines
Staten Island Hit-And-Run Killer Still at Large, Just as Defense Attorneys Prefer (Advance, Gothamist) Tech Firms Compete to Offer Bike-Riding Employees Best Amenities (Marketplace) Fourteen Arrested For Forging NYCHA Parking Placards (News) Second Pedestrian Killed This Week in Traffic Crash in Downtown Flushing (Times-Ledger) Queens Officials Unveil Plaque For Pat Dolan, Killed By Driver in November … Continued
By
Noah Kazis
8:57 AM EST on February 24, 2012
- Staten Island Hit-And-Run Killer Still at Large, Just as Defense Attorneys Prefer (Advance, Gothamist)
- Tech Firms Compete to Offer Bike-Riding Employees Best Amenities (Marketplace)
- Fourteen Arrested For Forging NYCHA Parking Placards (News)
- Second Pedestrian Killed This Week in Traffic Crash in Downtown Flushing (Times-Ledger)
- Queens Officials Unveil Plaque For Pat Dolan, Killed By Driver in November (Times-Ledger)
- No Crashes, Yet Upper East Siders Want Cyclists to Dismount on 78th Street Overpass (DNAinfo)
- Bronx Precinct Hit With Lawsuit For Setting Arrest Quotas, Including For Traffic Summonses (News)
- Preliminary Engineering Work Begins on Tappan Zee (LoHud)
- Point/Counterpoint: Build Ferries Now, or Build Park-And-Rides First (Bklyn Daily 1, 2)
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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