Today’s Headlines

NYT, Post, Metro Have Their Own Takes on de Blasio’s Backsliding on Pedestrian Space
State DOT Reduces Spending on Bike-Ped Safety (MTR); Related: Drivers Kill Two Suffolk Peds (WNBC)
Cuomo Trying to “Tamp Down Expectations” on How Much Feds Will Give With TZB TIFIA Loan (TU)
CapNY Looks at the Long Past and Fuzzy Future of the Second Avenue Subway
Teamsters Balk at de Blasio’s Suggestion of Replacing Horse Carriages With Cars (CapNY)
Turns Out There Are Better Uses for Precious Manhattan Real Estate Than Gas Pumps (NYT)
Staten Island Resident Calls WPIX Because Daylighting Plan Removed Parking in Front of His House
City Will Replace All 250,000 Street Lights With LED Fixtures by 2017 (Post)
Jackson Heights BID Spruces Up Triangle With Plaza Chairs (Brownstoner Queens)
Making It Easy: Alleged Drunk Driver Smashes Into NYPD Cruiser (News)
The Day NYPD Stopped Manhattan Traffic for a Cat to Cross the Street (Ephemeral NY)