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Today’s Headlines

8:59 AM EDT on October 26, 2011

    • Bloomberg Sold on Secaucus 7 Extension, Hoping to Lock In Project by 2013 (Post)
    • Elected Officials and Residents Blast State For Removing Tappan Zee Transit (LoHud)
    • County Exec Astorino: Transit-Free Bridge "Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish" (Nyack News/Views)
    • Bill Thompson's MTA Plan: Swap Payroll Tax for Commuter Tax, Add Weight-Based Vehicle Fee (Post)
    • MTA Board Member: Before Raising Staten Island Tolls Again, Toll City's Free Bridges (Advance)
    • Staten Island Republicans Call for Payroll Tax Repeal, Organize Churches and Charities (Advance)
    • TWU: No Wage Freeze If Cuomo Gives Millionaires $5 Billion Tax Cut (Capital)
    • In Tie Vote, CB 5 Committee Opts Against Requesting Sixth Avenue Bike Lane Extension (DNAinfo)
    • Sam Schwartz's Landlord Flouts Bikes In Buildings Law (AMNY)
    • Dangerous Flushing and Jamaica Streets Get Safer, But Electeds Want to Go Further (News)
    • With City Council Vote, Gifford Miller's Sheridan-Adjacent Housing to Break Ground Next Year (Crain's)

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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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