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9:00 AM EDT on August 3, 2011

    • Hundreds Enjoy Face Painting and Fire Hydrants at E. 204th Street Weekend Walks (BNN)
    • Other Names for New Pop-Up Cafés: "Porch," "Pop-Up Park," "Oasis" (Transpo Nation)
    • Michael Powell on Walder: Real Leaders Embrace Crises, They Don't Quit (NYT)
    • Housing Commissioner Darryl Towns to Plead Guilty in DUI (News)
    • Cortlandt Street Station to Reopen Sept. 6 (Post)
    • MTA Signals Division, Home to Falsified Repair Records, Run By Nepotist (Post)
    • State Senator Carl Fuschillo: Make Wrong-Way Driving A Felony (LoHud)
    • Daily News Plugs Summer Streets, "Big Apple's Ultimate Block Party"
    • Leonardo DiCaprio and Blake Lively: Scofflaw Cyclists (Observer)

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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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