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8:57 AM EDT on September 12, 2011

    • City Council, Supportive of Concept, Will Hold Hearings on Bike Share (NYT)
    • Frank Bruni Just Plain Nails It On Cycling and Sadik-Khan (NYT)
    • New York's Bike Boom Sends Cost of Used Bikes Soaring (WSJ)
    • Chelsea Advocates Want One Parking Space Per Block to Become "Micropark" (DNAinfo)
    • Lower Manhattan Sees Spike in DWI Arrests (DNAinfo)
    • MTA Board Member Charles Moerdler, NIMBY (Crain's)
    • Growing Number of Women Break Into Boy's Club of Bike Mechanics (NYT)
    • Queens Assembly Candidates Want to Scrap Payroll Tax and Get More Buses (Gotham Gazette)
    • Good Samaritan Killed While Assisting Motorist on Verrazano (SI Live)
    • L.A. Firefighters Bike Cross-Country to Honor 9/11 First Responders (DNAinfo)

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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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