Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:04 AM EDT on March 21, 2011
- NYMag “Bikelash” Epic Prints This Take on NYC Bike Policy: “Equivalent to What Happened on 9/11”
- Park Slope PARK Smart Expansion Wins CB Endorsement, Takes Effect in May (Bklyn Paper)
- Happy 200th Birthday, Manhattan Street Grid (NYT)
- Leandra’s Law Being Enforced – Why Not Hayley and Diego’s? (News)
- Hit-And-Run Drivers Kill Bronx Pedestrian, Critically Injure Queens Cyclist in Sunday Crashes (News)
- Three-Car Crash Ends With Taxi in Upper West Side Phone Booth (DNAinfo)
- In Bed-Stuy, NYPD Mace and Taser Man Over Double Parking (News)
- More Coverage of the Pro-Bike Lane Q Poll Results (Transpo Nation, City Room)
- PPW Bike Lane Tweaks Will “Make A Good Thing Even Better,” Says CB 6 (Bklyn Paper)
- Odd Times Profile — What’s An “Ideological Mountain Bike”? — of London Bike Share
- De Blasio Rallies for Made-In-New-York Taxi of Tomorrow (NY1)
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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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