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9:01 AM EST on February 23, 2011

    • Oil Prices Spike, Stocks Tumble as Absolutist Regimes Wobble in Middle East (NYT)
    • Police Brutalize Bronx Teenager For Riding Bike on Sidewalk (News, Post)
    • Start Your Day Off Crazy With Steve Cuozzo's Latest 34th Street Rant (Post)
    • Brooklyn Brewery Owner: "Safe Streets" Isn't An Abstraction, It's Hundreds of Lives Saved (News)
    • Brooklyn Paper Rehashes Latest Marcia Kramer PPW Hit Job
    • Before Trying to Undo PPW Redesign, NBBL Member Fought for Right to Double-Park (Brooklyn Spoke)
    • State Gets Green Kudos For Spending Stimulus on Transit and Fix-It-First Projects (Times Union)
    • New Jersey Budget Offers Transpo Funding Increase, With Buses the Priority (Transpo Nation)
    • Midtown Residents Want Charter Buses Off Streets, in New Parking Lots (DNAinfo)
    • "Sidewalk Rage" Newest Media-Hyped Fear (Though Adding More Ped Space Would Help) (1010WINS)

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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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