Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

On-Duty Secret Service Agent, Trying to Beat the Light, Kills Bed-Stuy Pedestrian Maria Tripp (News) Sidewalk Extensions, Ped Plazas Coming to Financial District’s Whitehall and State Streets (DNAinfo) First Phase of Queens Greenway, From LIC to Astoria, to Open This Fall (News) Cuomo Won’t Tell New Yorkers How He Hopes to Pay for Tappan Zee (Transpo … Continued

By Noah Kazis

8:57 AM EDT on May 4, 2012

On-Duty Secret Service Agent, Trying to Beat the Light, Kills Bed-Stuy Pedestrian Maria Tripp (News)
Sidewalk Extensions, Ped Plazas Coming to Financial District’s Whitehall and State Streets (DNAinfo)
First Phase of Queens Greenway, From LIC to Astoria, to Open This Fall (News)
Cuomo Won’t Tell New Yorkers How He Hopes to Pay for Tappan Zee (Transpo Nation)
Transpo Nation Previews Lower Manhattan’s 43 Bike-Share Stations
DOT Responds to Death of 5-Year-Old Timothy Keith With Hicks Street Speed Sign (DNAinfo)
Sam Schwartz Pitches His Congestion Pricing Plan in the Daily News
LIRR to Study Reopening Station in Booming Elmhurst (WSJ)
Phil Goldfeder Keeps Up His Push for Restored Rockaway Branch LIRR Service (DNAinfo)
City Plans New Ferry Service Between Upper East Side and Randall’s Island (DNAinfo)

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Noah Kazis

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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