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By Noah Kazis

9:00 AM EST on December 13, 2010

FDNY “Crash Tax” Draws Fire From Council (Times, WSJ)
Fidler Bill to Slow Bike Lane Buildout With Hearings Gets Support From Tish James (Bklyn Paper)
Markowitz’s “My Favorite Lanes” Tune Now Available in Christmas Card Format (Bklyn Paper)
“Latin Tourism Ambassador,” Salsa Icon, and Bloomberg Pal Willie Colon Keeps Parking Placard (Post)
UES Garage Charges $14,400 a Year, NYC Charges Residential On-Street Parkers Nothing (Curbed)
Texting Off-Duty Cop Plows Car Into West Street Building (Gothamist)
Somehow, No Serious Injuries in Horrific Four-Way Queens Crash (News)
Jackson Heights Man Starts Cycling, Drops 30 Pounds, Gets a Daily News Profile
NY Magazine Lists Bike Traffic Lights as “Life-Affirming” Reason to Love New York
NYC Isn’t the Only Town Where Vocal Complainers Can Get a Bike Lane Erased (Charlestown Patch)

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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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