Today’s Headlines

8:59 AM EDT on May 16, 2012

De Blasio Comes Out Against Parking Meter Privatization and Rate Increases (WSJ)
Big Upgrades on Table For Hudson River Greenway in Upper Manhattan (DNAinfo)
Sadik-Khan Visits Site of Fatal Staten Island Bike Crash With Wagner College President (DNAinfo)
Community Board Approves Midtown's 6 1/2th Avenue, New Raised Crosswalks (Observer)
Good News: Over Half of Manhattan's Bike-Share Stations Will Be in the Street (Gothamist)
Van Bramer Cheers Inclusion of LIC in Bike-Share, Wants More Stations in Queens (Q Courier)
Felix Salmon Follows Up on Bike-Share Costs and Convenience (Reuters)
Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein Talk Bike-Share (WNYC)
So Far, Only 238 Plug-In Vehicles Bought in New York City (NYT)
Arbitration Panel Awards Raises to 3,000 MTA Bus Drivers (News)
Nostrand Avenue Reconstruction, Including SBS Prep, Begins in Bed-Stuy (Brownstoner)

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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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