Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on April 23, 2012
- Gov. Cuomo to Appoint Gov. Paterson to MTA Board (News)
- NYPD Inattention to Bicycle Crashes Gets National Attention From CNN‘s Dr. Sanjay Gupta
- Police Cruiser as Weapon: Brooklyn Man Run Down and Killed By NYPD (NYT)
- Three-Car Midtown Crash Injures 10, Including Four on Sidewalk; “No Criminality” (NYT, DNA)
- Harrison, NJ Plans to Double Town Population, Grow Around PATH Train (WSJ)
- New Jersey Transit Systems Setting Records, But Funding Stays Flat (NJ Spotlight)
- Bay Ridge Drivers: Unless Fourth Ave. Stays Motorway, We’ll Go to Jersey (Bklyn Paper)
- Former Opponents of Putnam Triangle Plaza Now Fighting for Every Inch (Bklyn Paper)
- The NYT Gets a Peek at West Side Bike-Share Location Map
- Ed Glaeser: For the Environment and Economy, Build Up Near Grand Central (News)
- Store Owners Sue City, Drivers for 2011 Crashes Off Queensboro Bridge (Post)
- Pick-Up Truck Driver Injures Pedestrian on Lower East Side (DNA)
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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