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8:56 AM EDT on September 2, 2011

    • Low-Ridership Port Jervis Line Decimated by Storm, Needs Months of Repairs (NYT)
    • Bronx DA Brings 15 Homicide Charges Against Chinatown Bus Driver, Says Neglect No Accident (NYT)
    • Too-Small Port Authority Toll Hikes Likely to Be Reduced Further by Cuomo/Christie Raids (Crain's)
    • Times Square Bowtie Soars Onto List of World's Top Ten Shopping Strips (Crain's)
    • Urban Sprawl and Impermeable Pavement Worsened Damage From Irene (WNYC)
    • Constrained Supply Make Taxi Medallions Better Investment Than Gold or Housing (Bloomberg)
    • Fairfield to Open New Train Station, But With 1,450 Parking Spots, Not Promised Development (WSJ)
    • Just Another Hipster on His Bike (NYT)
    • Policy and Luxury Demand Send Parking Prices Up in U.S. Downtowns (WSJ)
    • Second Avenue Construction Spurs First Avenue Renaissance (WSJ)

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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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