Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on May 25, 2012
- 76th Precinct Didn’t Have a Radar Gun For at Least a Month (DNAinfo)
- Gustavo Rivera Keeps Up Support For Webster Avenue SBS (News)
- On Weekends, East River Ferry Needs a Bigger Boat (NYT)
- EDC Strikes Deal to Connect South Bronx Greenway and Randall’s Island (DNAinfo)
- Expert Panel, Downtown Residents Call For Tolling East River Bridges (Villager)
- Metro-North Chief Talks TOD, Parking, and Capital Funding (WCBJ)
- Hunts Point Pedestrian Confronts Dangerous Cab Drivers, Is Viciously Attacked (Post)
- Bloomberg Endorses Taxi Fare Hike (DNAinfo)
- Hicksville Station Improvements Mean More Service After East Side Access (Hicksville News)
- News: East Side Access Cost Overruns and Delays Are “Disturbing”
- More on Barclays Center Transportation Plan from Atlantic Yards Report
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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