Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on June 27, 2012
- Primary Night Winners: Rangel, Velazquez, Meng, Jeffries (NY1)
- The Times Finally, But Credulously, Covers Tappan Zee’s Missing Transit and Financing (NYT)
- Toby Ann Stavisky Wants Lots of Parking at Flushing Soccer Stadium. What Could Go Wrong? (WSJ)
- Collision Between Gas Tanker, Delivery Truck and Stopped MTA Bus Injures 31 in Harlem (DNA)
- Bruce McCall Still Hates All Street Users Who Are Not Him (NYT)
- N And R Trains Get Experimental Countdown Clock (Capital)
- City Planning Official Caught Using Fake Placard, Fined $6,500 and Loses Job (NYT)
- New DOT Safety Ad: Pay Attention, Including to Errant Basketballs (Transpo Nation)
- Should New York Build True HSR Between NYC and Albany? (Remapping Debate)
- Private Bus Offers Pricey But Direct Link From Williamsburg to Rockaways (Capital)
- On-Street Bike Rack Will Preserve Visibility at Cobble Hill Intersection (DNAinfo)
- Felix Salmon Weighs In on John Liu, Bike-Share Safety, And Helmet Laws (Reuters)
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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