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9:01 AM EDT on May 25, 2011

    • Unanimous CB 5 Committee Endorses Car-Free Central Park Trial, But Bloomberg Says No (DNAinfo)
    • Senate Overwhelmingly Passes $60M Gas Tax Holiday; Chances Slim in Assembly (CapCon)
    • Truck Crossover Mirror Bill Passes Assembly, Heads to Cuomo's Desk (NY1)
    • Ticket Fix Grand Jury Extended a Month as Inquiry Continues to Expand (News)
    • A-Rod, Jay-Z, Three City Council Members All Had Tickets Fixed (News)
    • 2011 Bike Tickets Up 48 Percent Over 2010, 273 Percent Over 2009 (Post)
    • New Jersey Raises Turnpike Tolls for Out-of-Staters (Post)
    • DOT Nixes Plan to Reopen West Street Crosswalk, Says Would Delay WTC Construction (DNAinfo)
    • At End of High Line, Turning a Parking Lot Into a Café and Gallery (NYT)
    • One in Five Subway Riders Must Swipe MetroCard More Than Once (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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