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9:01 AM EST on November 7, 2011

    • Retired Police: Top Brass Ordered Ticket Fixing for Politicians, Churches, Synagogues (WNYC)
    • WWII Veteran, 87, Hit and Killed By Officer Driving NYPD Traffic Squad Car (News, Post)
    • Derailments and Delays Have Straphangers Worried About Return to MTA's Bad Old Days (TransNat)
    • Man in Town For Friend's Wake Struck and Killed By East Flatbush Driver (News)
    • Crain's: Joe Lhota Must Convince Legislature, Cuomo to Fund Rest of Capital Program
    • Schumer Still Dodging Prospect Park West Questions (Bklyn Paper)
    • Parking Permit Best Practices: Charge Higher Meter Prices in RPP Neighborhoods (TransNat)
    • Daily News: Most City Streets "Work Just Fine" -- No Need for RPP
    • Carroll Gardens Parents Want to Turn Street Into Playground on Snowy Days (Post)
    • Law Enforcement, Politicians Given Thousands of Free E-ZPasses (Post)
    • Still No Funding For Even Transit-Free Tappan Zee (LoHud)
    • Lew Fidler Explains His Bike Lane Bill, Parking Permit Opposition (Bklyn Politics)

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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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