Today’s Headlines

8:53 AM EDT on July 2, 2014

City Closing in on Deal for REQX Ventures to Purchase Alta, Inject Cash Into Citi Bike (CapNY)
Bayside BID Wants DOT to Study Building More Parking at Municipal Lot (Queens Courier)
Staten Island CB 1 Chair Wants to Make Sure New North Shore Development Includes Greenway (NY1)
DSNY Opposes Alt-Side Parking Bill, But de Blasio Is Open to It (News, Observer)
New Yorker Maps and Explores NYC's Dollar Van Routes
Vision Zero Gets Briefest of Mentions in WSJ Article on de Blasio's Priorities Beyond Pre-K
NYLCV: PlaNYC 3.0 Due in 10 Months, But de Blasio Hasn't Appointed Sustainability Chief (Observer)
MTA Board Member Allen Cappelli Bows Out of Dem Primary Against IDC's Savino (Advance, CapNY)
EDC: Greenpoint Pier Will Get Repairs to February Collapse Before G Train Shutdown (Bklyn Paper)
If Your Bike Lane Is Just Paint, You're Going to Have Some Problems (Brooklyn Spoke)
A Look Inside the Effort to Bring Cell Service to Underground Subway Stations (Gizmodo)

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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