Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on June 18, 2012
- State DOT Joins City in Dashing Hopes of Sheridan Teardown (News)
- Driver Doors and Kills Cyclist in Fresh Meadows, Impaling Him on Handlebars (Post)
- City Approves Permanent Plaza For Jackson Heights’ 78th Street (News)
- Everyone Should Read Kate Slevin’s Farewell Post at Mobilizing The Region
- Upper West Side School Wants Play Street While Schoolyard Under Construction (DNAinfo)
- Private Transit Fills Gap Left By Bronx Bus Cut, But Locals Still Hope to See Bx34 Back (DNAinfo)
- Brooklyn Assembly Member William Colton Rallies to Restore B64 Bus (CBS)
- Ban Ki-Moon Wants UN Bike-Share Station, But That’s Not Enough for Area NIMBYs (DNAinfo)
- Blood Runs Thicker in Metro-North Hiring (News)
- Amanda Burden Still Taking Heat For Letting Garages Ruin Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue (WSJ)
- Bike Corral Comes To Williamsburg (DNAinfo)
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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