Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:01 AM EDT on August 1, 2012
- Federal Probe of Construction Industry Fraud Expands to More Major Contractors (Transpo Nation)
- Leroy Comrie and Jumaane Williams Want to Legalize Street Hails For Vans, Too (News)
- DOT Starts Construction on Washington Heights Senior Safety Street Improvements (DNAinfo)
- The Post Crows Over Bike-Share Delay — And Circles In for the Kill
- Cab Crash Victim Remains on Life Support as Police and DA Investigate (DNAinfo)
- Truck Crash on Car-Only Grand Central Bridge Sends Concrete Falling to Sidewalk (News)
- City Extends Deadline for Parking Meter Privatization Proposals (Reuters)
- No Surprise Here: State Rejects Tappan Zee Greenway Concept (LoHud)
- One of Four Teams Fails to Bid on Tappan Zee, Infighting Commences (Newsday)
- 32BJ and Big Real Estate Team Up to Promote Development (Crain’s)
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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