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8:52 AM EST on December 8, 2010

    • DOT Releases Even More PPW Data: Redesigned Street Serves More Total Commuters (Transpo Nation)
    • Madison Ave Killer Gets Summons Only For Technicalities, While Police Blame Victim For iPod (News)
    • Cuomo Must Choose Between Maintaining Transit and No New Revenue Pledge (Gotham Gazette)
    • East Bronx Wants To Be City's First 20 MPH Zone (News)
    • Boro Park Ambulances, Businesses Continue Barrage Against Safe Streets For Seniors (News)
    • It's Still The City's Best Deal, But Parking Meter Rate Hike Draws Bronx Motorists' Ire (News)
    • Ikea Gives Employees Free Bikes, Remains Opposed to Red Hook Lane (Bklyn Paper)
    • Staten Island Cyclists Urge Greenway Improvements to Compensate For Father Capodanno Lane (NY1)
    • Upper Manhattan CB 12 Delays Bike Lane Discussion, Says Winter Date Unfair to Elderly (DNAinfo)
    • Responsive MTA Tweaks East Side SBS Based on Rider Feedback (DNAinfo)
    • Get Ready to Take The Ed Koch Bridge Bike Lane, Avoid Hugh Carey Tunnel Traffic (NYT)

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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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