Today’s Headlines

Irene: Emergency in NY, NJ; Street Events Canceled; Transpo Agencies Brace (NYT 1, 2; News; WNYC)
MTA May Shut Service Completely Beginning Saturday Night (News, Post)
Hit-and-Run Driver Hospitalizes 2 Women on Upper West Side; At Least One Critical (Post)
Chelsea Crosstown Bike Lanes Clear CB 4 Committee, Though Questions Remain (DNAinfo)
Brooklyn Paper to Jim Walden and NBBL: Get Over It
Johnson-Era C Train Cars Aren’t Going Anywhere Anytime Soon (NYT)
Related: Essential Reading From Transportation Nation on the MTA Debt Bomb
NYLCV, GCA Leaders Push for Federal Transit Funding (Newsday)
Rahm Emanuel’s Bike Program: The First 100 Days (WBEZ)
Survey Shows Younger Americans Driving Less (Sightline)
City Pays the Rent for East Villager’s “Living Room on the Sidewalk” (News)