Today’s Headlines

9:02 AM EDT on May 7, 2012

Homicide Charges Filed Against Driver in Fatal Head-On 90 MPH Collision (News)
Private Garbage Truck Driver Kills Hell's Kitchen Pedestrian; "No Criminality Suspected" (Gothamist)
Tappan Zee Transparency: Cuomo Admin Won't Say a Word About Likely Thruway Toll Hikes (LoHud)
Felon Convicted of Defrauding MTA Hired to Run Payroll For East Side Access Contractor (News)
Cool, If Surprising, to See Bike-Share's Alison Cohen on List of NYC's Most Powerful (NYT)
Newsday: Walkable, Transit-Oriented Downtown Is the Future for Farmington
As Big Box Retail Struggles, Urban Locations Able to Subdivide and Thrive (WSJ)
Five Borough Bike Tour Shows Demand For Cycling, But Safety Remains Obstacle (AMNY)
City's First Bike Expo Proves Cycling Is Big Business (DNAinfo)
City's Highways, Old And Narrow, Safer Than National Average (Times-Union)
Annual Blessing of the Bikes Calls Attention to Year's Slain Cyclists (NYT)
Stringer Pushes MTA to Make Senior MetroCard Replacement Easier (News)

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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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