Today’s Headlines

Oil Still Gushing Into Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Season Begins (NYT)
MTA, TWU Working on Deal to Avert Layoffs (News)
Bus Riders Left Waiting When Drivers Take Sick Leave, Vacation Time (Post)
Transit Smart Card Debuts This Week (WNYC, Post); "Swipers" Jam MetroCard Machines (AMNY)
Vincent Gentile, City Council Poised to Add Another Loophole to On-Street Parking Rules (Post)
Before It Becomes a Park, East Side Pier 42 Will Be a Parking Lot (Observer)
Bike Turn Lane Installed on Bowery at Prince (Cyclosity)
Van Cortlandt Park Users Still Waiting for Bridge Across Major Deegan (Riverdale Press)
Annual Bronx Stickball Tourney Returns to Streets of Soundview (NY1)
LAPD Officers Caught Pulling a Pogan (Streetsblog LA)