Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on June 29, 2012
- State Will Let Rush Hour Buses Ride in New Tappan Zee’s Extra-Wide Shoulders (LoHud)
- New York City Grew Faster Than Its Suburbs in 2010-2011 (NYT)
- DOT Inspectors Will Teach and Enforce Delivery Bike Rules to UWS Restaurants (DNAinfo)
- Matt Chaban Dives in Deep on Potential Grand Central-Area Upzoning (Observer)
- Queens Two-Year-Old Will Survive After Being Hit By Bus (News)
- After Long History, Brooklyn Greenway Now Has a City Budget Line (Capital)
- Bike Safety Education Put on Front-Burner Before Bike-Share Launch (Thirteen)
- Viral Video Showing Subway Stair Stumbles Gets Quick Results From MTA (NYT, Kabak)
- Federal Court Says Taxi System in Compliance With Disability Law (NYT)
- Adorable: MTA Gives MetroCard Mobile and J Train Onesie to Baby Born on Subway (Post)
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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