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Today’s Headlines

8:55 AM EDT on October 3, 2011

    • Zoning Rules Force Luxury Towers, Public Housing Alike to Overbuild Parking (Crain's)
    • Scaled-Back Toll Hike Means No Bus Garage at Port Authority, Worse Transit Service (Record)
    • Cuomo Already Has Short List for Ward Replacement, Topped by Patrick Foye (NYT, WSJ)
    • 700 Protesters Arrested for Walking on Brooklyn Bridge Vehicular Lanes (NYT)
    • New Jersey Strikes Deal With Feds Over ARC Repayment (WSJ)
    • High-Tech Signal System Didn't Survive Lightning Hit as Intended, Taking Out LIRR (NYT)
    • Cuomo Administration Walks Back Self-Administered Eye Exam Policy (Post)
    • Ed Koch May Not Like the UN, But He Loves the East Side Greenway Plan (News)
    • Greenway Earns NYT Editorial Endorsement as Well
    • WSJ's Numbers Guy: Hunter Bike/Ped Study Didn't Say What Media Thought It Did
    • Sadik-Khan Explains Her Safety-First Approach to Boston Globe

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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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