Today’s Headlines

8:59 AM EDT on June 20, 2012

Four-Year-Old Ebrahim Kebe Killed by Bronx Minivan Driver While Playing by His Home (Post, DNA)
Times Quotes One Motorist, Two Cabbies and a Chauffeur, Each Opposing Speed Cameras
More Coverage of the Council Hearing on Outer Borough Transit (DNA, AMNY)
Bronx Is Largest Reverse-Commute Market in U.S., and Growing (Transpo Nation)
How the NYPD's Obsession With Numbers Turned Sour (NYT)
In Queens Race, Meng Promises Transpo Focus, Crowley Wants 7 Train to LaGuardia (NYT)
DUMBO's Pearl Street Triangle Is Getting a Touch More Color (Brownstoner, Bklyn Eagle)
Staten Island Police Start Crackdown on Farebeaters, Now Costing MTA $50M (News)
Sunset Park Debates Which Blocks Must Bear Truck Traffic (DNA)
Your Latest Reminder That the Yankee Stadium Parking Deal Was an Utter Fiasco (Reuters)

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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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