Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:02 AM EDT on April 16, 2012
- Crain’s: Sam Schwartz Toll Plan Would Be Good for Business, Good for New York
- NBBL Plans Another Prospect Park West Lawsuit, This Time Over Pedestrian Islands (Bklyn Paper)
- Cab Driver Leaves Five-Year-Old Deaf Tourist Timothy Keith Brain Dead; No Charges (News 1, 2)
- Henry Garcia, 13-Year-Old Cyclist, Killed By Hit-And-Run Bensonhurst Driver (Post)
- Victor Felix Killed By Possibly-Drunk Driver While Crossing Adam Clayton Powell Blvd (Post)
- Hit-And-Run Bronx Driver Leaves Two Pedestrians in Critical Condition (Gothamist)
- While Sitting at Williamsburg Bus Stop, Deborah Munize Hit By Livery Cab (News)
- Ray Kelly May Be Running For Mayor After All (Post)
- PlaNYC Author: Infrastructure Bank Without New Revenues Is “Fiscal Game” (Bloomberg)
- Staten Island Breaks Ground on New Bike Path at New Dorp Beach Park (Advance)
- The Times Gives Some Love to Hudson Square’s Pedestrian Managers
- One Delivery Driver and His Boss Complain About Bike Lanes (Post)
- Looks Like the M15 Select Bus Service Is Pretty Popular (Post)
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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