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9:06 AM EDT on May 6, 2011

    • Republican Senators Don't Think Funding the MTA Is Their Job (Newsday)
    • Truck Driver Kills Delivery Cyclist on Fort Hamilton Pkwy, Flees Scene (News)
    • There's Always Money For Drivers: Christie Jumpstarts Parkway Widening (MTR)
    • Osama bin Laden Doesn't Have to Hit a Target to Strike From Beyond the Grave (WSJ)
    • The NYT Arts Section Gives Manhattan Greenway a Rave Review
    • Cops Escaped Towing Fines In Addition to Parking Tickets (News)
    • SUV Driver Hits Two Children Walking at Site of Deadly 2009 Long Island Crash (CBS)
    • Queens Reps Rally For Better 7 Train Service (Queens Chronicle)
    • Straphangers: R Train Schmutziest, 7 Train Cleanest (News)

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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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