Today’s Headlines
Isabel Rodriguez, 88, Killed By Hit-And-Run Driver on Brownsville’s Stone Avenue (Post) Five Dead in Van Wyck Traffic Crash, Including Two Children (NYT, News) Bike-Share Software Glitch Affects Locking, Delaying Chattanooga Roll-Out Until Fall (News) Skelos and Silver Oppose Thruway Toll Hike, and Cuomo May Back Down (Post) A Close Look at the Thruway Authority’s Shaky … Continued
By
Noah Kazis
8:57 AM EDT on July 23, 2012
- Isabel Rodriguez, 88, Killed By Hit-And-Run Driver on Brownsville’s Stone Avenue (Post)
- Five Dead in Van Wyck Traffic Crash, Including Two Children (NYT, News)
- Bike-Share Software Glitch Affects Locking, Delaying Chattanooga Roll-Out Until Fall (News)
- Skelos and Silver Oppose Thruway Toll Hike, and Cuomo May Back Down (Post)
- A Close Look at the Thruway Authority’s Shaky Finances (LoHud)
- Journal News: State Still Needs to Provide Answers on Tappan Zee Tolls, Transit
- Seven Perspectives on the New Tappan Zee Bridge, From Fisherman to Bus Rider (LoHud)
- Tons of Public Support for Plan to Add Metro-North Station Along Bronx Amtrak Route (Crain’s)
- Upper East Side Waste Transfer Station Gets Final Approval (NYT)
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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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