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9:01 AM EST on February 4, 2011

    • Marty Markowitz Rides Bike Into State of the Borough, Digs In Against PPW (Bklyn Paper, Post)
    • City Hires Top Engineers to Study Secaucus 7, But MTA and NJ Still Skeptical (News)
    • Every Staten Island Bus to Get Real-Time Info By End of Year, Rest of City to Follow (Transpo Nation)
    • Driver Hits Pedestrian at E. 120th Street, Victim in Critical Condition (DNAinfo)
    • Squadron/Silver Bill Will Allow City to Regulate Curbside Intercity Buses (NYT)
    • Cartoony City Planning Handbook Aims to Make Zoning Understandable By All (NYT)
    • Preservationists: Astor Place Asphalt Like Native American Trail, So Don't Widen Sidewalks (DNAinfo)
    • Two New Food Kiosks To Open on Flatiron Plazas (DNAinfo)
    • Christie Appointee David Samson Takes Over as Port Authority Chairman (Post)
    • City to Begin Eminent Domain at Willets Point (WSJ)

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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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