Today’s Headlines

…Pedestrians got so used to having the thoroughfare all to themselves that there is now a movement afoot to close the street to car traffic one day a week…

• No More Wiffle Ball on Lincoln Road (Brooklyn Record)
  

• Faster Buses? (Bruce Schaller in Gotham Gazette) 
• A Coney Island Arena? Marty Used to Think So (Atlantic Yards Report)
• Thomas Friedman continues to lay out the case against G.M. (NYT)
  • …G.M. responds on its corporate blog (GM FYI)
• Giuliani Says U.S. Lacks Energy Policy (NYT)
• Hospital’s Garden of Sobriety May Sprout Rows of Cars (NYT) 
• Suozzi Gets a Standing O From the Conference of Mayors (NYT) 
• Four Killed in L.I. Car Crash (Daily News)
• Gas Prices Push Inflation Higher (Daily News)
• Livable Streets Needed on the Moon and Mars (Daily News)