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Today’s Headlines

9:37 AM EDT on August 23, 2010

  • Court Upholds Environmental Review, Traffic Analysis for Willets Point Megaproject (City Room)
  • After Stroke or Seizure, Livery Cab Driver Kills Mother of Five on Staten Island (Post, News)
  • Hardly Bike Bedlam: Summer Streets Gives Kids Freedom to Ride Their Bike (News) 
  • Ed Koch Declares Support For Pedestrian Plazas (Youtube)
  • Williamsburg's Lock-Gluing "Bike Crusader" Speaks in Brooklyn Paper Point/Counterpoint (1, 2)
  • Pair of Motorcycle Crashes Only 22 Minutes Apart Kill Three (News)
  • Ruben Diaz Sr. Bets On Campaign Vans, Challenger Ramos Pledges to Go Door-to-Door (News)
  • AMNY Reports on Some NYC Converts to Active Commuting
  • Taxi Drivers Use More Caution If They Lease Cab From Neighbor, Study Shows (WSJ)
  • Keeping the Park in Parkway: Bronx Mobilizes To Save Pelham Parkway's Trees (Post)
  • Brooklyn Eagle's Dennis Holt Urges Bergen Street Cyclists to Pipe Down on Weekend Mornings

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Noah Kazis
Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox. Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.

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