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8:58 AM EST on February 7, 2011

    • Chuck Schumer Lobbying Against PPW Bike Lane Behind the Scenes (Post)
    • Wealthy PPW Foes Get Pro Bono Help From White Shoe Law Firm, Expected to Sue (Transpo Nation 1, 2)
    • From Historic Low, NYC Traffic Deaths Rose 4.3 Percent in 2010 (NYT)
    • Error-Riddled Daily News Editorial Accuses Sadik-Khan of Operating in Secret
    • NJ Senators, Amtrak Announce New Hudson Tunnel Plan: Less Capacity, Higher Cost (Transpo Nation)
    • Avella, Weprin and Markowitz Already Organizing Against Congestion Pricing Revival (News)
    • Drunk Driver Kills 80-Year-Old Maria Prikul in Bath Beach, Dragging Her For a Block (Post, News)
    • Hit-And-Run Driver Breaks Leg of Zyaire Felder, Age 7, on Sidewalk-Less Staten Island Street (Advance)
    • UWS: Rear-Ended Taxi Jumps Curb, Hits Two Pedestrians Before Ending in Bank Lobby (Post, News)
    • Eastern Parkway Reconstruction, Including Bike/Ped-Friendly Median, May Start in Spring (Brownstoner)
    • The Observer's Matt Chaban Nails It: "Marty Mocks Bikes While People Perish"

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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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