Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EDT on April 30, 2012
- Family of Seven, From Grandparents to Three-Year-Old, Dead in Bronx River Parkway Crash (NYT)
- …Surviving Family Mourns, Day After One Victim’s First Communion (News)
- Taxi Driver Kills Pedestrian Who Fell Down Crossing Sixth Avenue in Soho (Post, DNAinfo)
- Restoring Two-Way Traffic to Liberty Avenue Boosts Safety and Business (Queens Courier)
- Cars Leave No Room For Commerce On Curbside and Sidewalk (Crain’s)
- Tentative Details Emerging About Bike-Share Pricing, Time Limits (Bklyn Spoke)
- Police Suspect No Criminality In Police Car Crash, Three Injured (DNAinfo)
- Exact Shade of Green Selected for Borough Taxis (NYT)
- Op-Ed: Construction Fraud Is No Isolated Occurrence (News)
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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