Today’s Headlines
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9:00 AM EDT on September 24, 2014
- Cuomo’s Reinvention Commission Invisible as MTA Releases Capital Plan (Capital, Crain’s)
- To Fill Massive Gap, MTA Proposes Shifting Payroll Tax From Operating to Capital Budget (Gannett)
- WPIX Files Powerful Human Interest Report on Hit-and-Run Victim; Driver Remains at Large
- Brooklyn Spoke Analyzes Sam Freedman’s Stale Bikelash Tropes in the New Yorker
- NYPD Out in Force in Central Park, Ticketing Cyclists (WPIX, Post)
- Some Guy Thinks He Was Buzzed By Jason Marshall Two Months Ago, and the Post Runs With It
- Bottom Line: Be Nice to Each Other; We Are All Flesh and Bone (CityLab, NYT)
- More Coverage of New Hit-and-Run Fines (News, WNYC, Gothamist, NY1, DNA, Advance)
- Council Member Chaim Deutsch Defends Speed Cam for Catching Speeders (Sheepshead Bites)
- Elderly Driver Hits Reverse, Smashes Into Flushing Grocery Store (Post)
- MTA Rejects Vincent Gentile’s Request for a One-Day Toll Cut on the VNB (Brooklyn Paper)
- Closing a Crumbling Parking Garage? That’s an Ideal Site for New Affordable Housing (Times Ledger)
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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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