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By Noah Kazis

9:09 AM EDT on September 2, 2010

Could Hurricane Earl Take Down the Subway System? (WSJ)
New York State Launches Reckless Driving Awareness Campaign (Gothamist)
Bragdon Exit Interview Praises JSK — and Hints at Sheridan Teardown? (Oregon Public Radio)
Walk Score Now Ranks Neighborhoods, Not Just Addresses (Walk Score Blog)
Roberta Gratz Pens Ode to Bottom-Up Revitalization of Upper West Side (NYT)
Bus Drivers’ Strike Strands 7,500 in Jersey (Post)
NJ Transit Pursues Onboard Wi-Fi (WSJ)
Cartoon: How NYPD Can Really Clean Up Ghost Bikes (Brooklyn Paper)
Why So Many Empty Lots in Flatbush? Middle Schoolers Explain in Video (Places Magazine)
Subway-Riding Reporter Races Cadillac-Chauffeured Rangel, 80; Guess Who Wins (Daily Politics)

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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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