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8:54 AM EST on November 30, 2011

    • State Drops Plans to Rebuild BQE and Gowanus, Citing Cost (Post)
    • DOT Uses Haikus to Spread Safety Message (NYT, News, Post)
    • Tappan Zee Plan Intended to Open Door for Public-Private Infrastructure Deals (Crain's)
    • Assm. Jack McEneny Blasts Cuomo Effort to Fund Tappan Zee With Pension Funds (CapTon)
    • Cap'n Transit Finds the Culprit for Knickerbocker Mess: 1983 Urban Renewal Plan
    • Winning Design for New Scaffolding to Debut Next Month (NYT)
    • Jamaica Cab Stand Makes Legal Pickups Popular (News)
    • Triple Parking Common on Fridays Near Upper West Side Mosque (DNAinfo)
    • On Staten Island, Man Leaving Car Crash Scene on Foot Pegged as Burglar (Advance)
    • Are Port Authority Toll Hikes Going to Transpo Projects or WTC? (Star-Ledger)

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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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