Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on May 14, 2012
- City Advances Plan to Privatize Parking Meter Operations, Not Enforcement or Rate-Setting (WSJ)
- Drunk Driver Kills Sunnyside Pedestrian Early Sunday Morning, Charged With Homicide (DNAinfo)
- Driver Kills Cyclist on Roosevelt Avenue Near Citi Field, “No Criminality Suspected” (Gothamist)
- In Staten Island Pedestrian Death, Victim’s Family Blames Mets and Bar For Letting Driver Drink (Post)
- NYPD Detective Accused of Vehicular Homicide Retires Before Trial, Will Receive Pension (News)
- Staten Island Parents Sue City for Kicking Child Off School Bus Before He Was Hit by Car (Advance)
- Driver Hits Three-Year-Old Boy in Sunset Park (DNAinfo)
- Denise Richardson’s Top Transit Priorities: Signal Improvements, Full Second Ave. Subway (AMNY)
- Bike-Share Exec Alison Cohen Sits Down for Q&A With Crain’s
- Upper East Side Uses Liquor Licenses as Lever Against Delivery Cyclist Behavior (DNAinfo)
- NJ Transit Could Allow More Bike Access on Commuter Trains (AP)
- Bloomberg Explains Bike-Share Isn’t For All-Day Rides (Post)
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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