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8:55 AM EDT on October 19, 2011

    • Gene Russianoff's Checklist for New MTA Chief: Cut Borrowing, Stick Up for Congestion Pricing (News)
    • Hasidim Enforce Gender Segregation on Public Franchise B110 Bus (NYWorld)
    • With 39 Percent of Drivers Speeding, Staten Island Pols Get Behind Camera Enforcement (Advance)
    • Check Out This Nice Interactive Map of MetroCard Swipe Data (WSJ)
    • Port Authority, MTA Finances Drive Conflict Between Cuomo and Bloomberg (Crain's)
    • Harsh Winter Meant Pothole Repair Time Doubled Despite Increased DOT Efforts (News)
    • Washington Heights CB Rejects Parking-Packed Towers Over Height Concerns (NYT)
    • Four Teams Submit Proposals for Massive Willets Point Redevelopment Project (NYT)
    • Even Hell's Kitchen Drivers Happy to See Parking Spaces Turned Into Parkland (DNAinfo)
    • Traffic Managers Haven't Stopped Fights Over Insufficient Brooklyn Bridge Bike/Ped Space (Bklyn Paper)

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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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