Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:54 AM EDT on October 5, 2011
- City Hall Asks Agencies for Two Percent Cuts This Year, Six Percent Cuts Next Year (Businessweek)
- Video: New Times Architecture Critic Walks South Bronx, Talks Planning With Amanda Burden (NYT)
- Despite Fixes, Residents Say Brooklyn Bridge Park Access Still Unsafe (Bklyn Paper)
- Cyclist: I Got Doored, Cop Told Me It Was My Fault and Refused to File Report (Great Pumpkin)
- TWU Workers Blast MTA Debt, Underwriters Fees at Occupy Wall Street (Thirteen)
- The Post Is Salivating Over the Potential For Bike Hate During Local Licensing Discussion
- Pat Foye Still Top Port Authority Pick, But Other Names Circulate (City Hall News)
- With 511, MTA Condenses 117 Phone Lines Into One (Post)
- LIC Hotel Offers Cheap Bike Rentals to Encourage Tourists to Explore Queens (News)
- Tom Duane Likes SBS, But Wants Longer-Lasting Decals for Instructions (DNAinfo)
- Nice Photo Tour of Second Avenue Subway Construction (Untapped NY)
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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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