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8:56 AM EDT on June 24, 2011

    • Albany's Grand Bargain Falls Apart, End-of-Session Action Postponed (CapTon, NYT)
    • Traffic Data Transparency Law Took Effect on Wednesday (City Room)
    • NBBL's Shocking FOIL Docs: Lander Actively Defended the Bike Lane He Supported (Transpo Nation)
    • Daily News: Do Sens. Golden, Lanza Care About New Yorkers or Monopolistic Taxi Medallion Owners?
    • Astorino to Cuomo: Make Tappan Zee Replacement A Priority (LoHud)
    • Midtown Direct Service Adds Five Percent to NJ Home Prices (WCBS)
    • Aging Equipment Means Three Days of Delay on NJ Transit, Amtrak (Star-Ledger)
    • Queens' Own Worksman Cycles Gets Daily News Profile
    • Retiring Crossing Guards Look Back at Careers With Pride (QChron)

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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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