Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:57 AM EDT on May 21, 2012
- Conflicts Between LIRR and Amtrak Drive East Side Access Overruns (WSJ)
- Amanda Burden Gets the NYT Profile Treatment
- Hunters Point Residents Turn to DIY Stop Sign in Fight for Traffic Safety (DNAinfo)
- The Post Finds a Merchant Worried About Bike-Share Drawing Crowds to Her Business
- Only One NY Cross-Harbor Freight “Car Float” Remains, But Port Authority Hopes to Revive It (WSJ)
- Downtown School Parents Push For Safety Improvements After Deadly Crash (DNAinfo)
- Mitchell Moss: Widen Manhattan’s Sidewalks and Get Rid of Free Parking (AMNY)
- Latest Rezoning, in Bed-Stuy, Will Improve Pedestrian Realm But Limit Development (NY1)
- Op-Ed: Citi Bike’s Corporate Branding Smart Fiscal Solution (News)
- Gelinas: NY Labor Law Means MTA Arbitration Is a Budget-Buster (Post)
- Greenwich Village Parking Space Selling for $1 Million (Post)
- Karen Koslowitz: Don’t Improve Rockaway Transit Through Our Backyards (Q Chron)
- CT Rail Commuter Council Wants Park-And-Ride Metro-North, Not TOD (Greenwich Times)
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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