Today’s Headlines
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8:56 AM EDT on July 1, 2014
- Cabbie Runs Over Woman With the Light at Columbus Circle; NYPD: No Criminality (Post)
- Vision Zero Goes Unmentioned by Bratton and de Blasio at NYPD Officers’ Graduation (WNYC, WSJ)
- More Coverage of City Council’s Alternate Side Parking Bill (News, WCBS, News 12)
- Times Union: Cuomo’s Clean Water Loan Raises More Questions Than It Answers on TZB Financing
- Reynoso and Espinal Kick Off Meetings This Month in Advance of Bushwick Rezoning (DNA)
- New MAS Tool Allows New Yorkers to Map Air Rights Development (Crain’s, CityLab)
- De Blasio Names Appointees to City Planning, Landmarks Commissions (Crain’s)
- REBNY Study: 3 Percent of City Is Landmarked, Making It Hard to Develop Housing (News)
- Port’s Director of WTC Redevelopment Leaves for Private Sector (Crain’s)
- Flushing Commons Breaks Ground; Merchants: Too Little Parking, Too Much Traffic (News)
- Gotham Gazette Looks at the History of Honorific Street Renaming in NYC (1, 2)
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In spring 2017, Stephen wrote for Streetsblog USA, covering the livable streets movement and transportation policy developments around the nation.
From August 2012 to October 2015, he was a reporter for Streetsblog NYC, covering livable streets and transportation issues in the city and the region. After joining Streetsblog, he covered the tail end of the Bloomberg administration and the launch of Citi Bike. Since then, he covered mayoral elections, the de Blasio administration's ongoing Vision Zero campaign, and New York City's ever-evolving street safety and livable streets movements.
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