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9:11 AM EDT on August 30, 2010

    • DiNapoli Launches MTA Forensic Audit, Focuses on Overtime Abuse (News)
    • Hit-and-Run Leaves Five-Year-Old Bronx Boy in Critical Condition (News, Post)
    • MTA Tolls to Rise Ten Percent, Possibly Targeting Out-of-State Drivers and Cash Payers (WNYC) 
    • 100,000 Commuters Breathe Sigh of Relief: LIRR Finally Back to Normal (NYT)
    • Brighton Beach Man Would Kill for a Parking Space -- Literally (News)
    • Believers in Grace Periods for Motorists Won't Like The Latest NYPD Directive (Post)
    • City Has Already Spent $280K on Car Washes in 2010, Mostly for NYPD (News)
    • In Reversal, Department of Sanitation to Spare Ghost Bikes (Brooklyn Paper) 
    • Toronto Slashes Parking Minimums Near Transit (Yglesias)
    • Have You Seen Any Unicycle Commuters? (City Room)

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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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