Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on May 2, 2012
- Construction on Permanent Times Square Redesign Begins This Spring (DNAinfo)
- Cuomo Grants Two-Year Reprieve on State Charge For MTA Borrowing (Advance)
- Wrong-Way, Hit-And-Run Driver Pleads Guilty to Criminally Negligent Homicide (QChron)
- Op-Ed: Tappan Zee Transit Key to Reinventing Hudson Valley, Halting Suburban Decline (Newsday)
- Coming Soon: Real Time Subway Data (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Queens Highway Crash Injures Eight, Including Three Children (DNAinfo)
- Driver Flees Scene After Striking Prospect Heights Two-Year-Old (Patch)
- Black Car Drivers Vote to Unionize in First Round of Major Campaign (Crain’s)
- Ed Towns and Wife Gwen Will Miss Campaign-Funded Personal Cars (News)
- Updated Scorecard Provides Standard For Measuring BRT Quality (Transpo Nation)
- Apparently, Cyclists Are All That Stand Between Piermont, NY and Perfection (NYT)
- Here’s One Way to Get Local Support For Metered Parking (DNAinfo)
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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