Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on March 21, 2012
- Republican Storobin Up in Recount-Bound Race for Kruger’s Senate Seat (NYT)
- Firefighter Biking to Work Saves Woman in Hudson (News)
- Yassky Confirms Borough Taxis Will Have Same Fares as Yellow Cabs (Post)
- For 100th Birthday, Grand Central Is Getting a Facelift (DNAinfo)
- Cupid’s Arrow Newest Weapon for G Train Defenders (Bklyn Paper)
- Thruway Chief Speaks for Hour On Tappan Zee, Doesn’t Say Anything (LoHud)
- Metro-North Makes Quiet Cars Permanent Feature (News)
- We Wouldn’t Mind Bloomberg Cribbing Congestion Pricing, Density From Singapore (NYT)
- Reminder: New York Is Still Building New Interstates (Watertown Daily Times)
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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