Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on April 25, 2012
- NYPD Detective Turns Self in Nine Days After Queens Hit-And-Run Crash (Post)
- Rather Than Build Support for Congestion Pricing, Cuomo Says There Is None (Transpo Nation)
- Unlike 27 Percent Of His Constituents, NY Governor Hasn’t Ridden Transit (Capital)
- Cuomo Insider to Take Top Political Job at MTA (Transpo Nation)
- Why Are Construction Costs So High? Here’s One Reason (NYT)
- DOT to Propose Curb Extensions, Left Turn Lanes, Bike Parking on UWS (DNAinfo)
- Queens Drivers Box In Fleeing Motorist Who Left Pedestrian Badly Wounded (News)
- East River Ferry Still Beating Ridership Projections, Still Needs Big Subsidy (WSJ)
- Atlantic Yards Area Needs Wider Sidewalks, Suggests New Report (News)
- Newsday Praises MTA For Restoring LIRR Service Cuts, Improving On-Time Service
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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