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8:56 AM EST on December 5, 2011

    • Port Authority Toll Increases Spur Ridership Jump on PATH and NJ Transit (NYT)
    • Staten Island Excited to Get First Pedestrian Plaza, Already Applying For Three More (NY1)
    • County Execs Blast Cuomo For Scrapping Tappan Zee Transit, Steamrolling Locals (CapTon)
    • Kate Slevin: Transit-Free Tappan Zee "Civics Lesson In How Not to Do A Transportation Project" (LoHud)
    • Cuomo Calls For Stimulus, But Only to Build Roads and Bridges (NYT, Buffalo News)
    • Tax Reform Talks May Touch Payroll Tax, Though MTA Would Be Reimbursed For Cuts (News)
    • Pete Donohue: Senate GOP Plan to Cut Payroll Tax Would Cripple Transit, and Long Island (News)
    • From Great Neck to Southampton, Long Island Begins to Embrace Walkability (NYT)
    • Taxi Riders Would Prefer Cabbies Drive Less Aggressively (Post)
    • One Hospitalized After Car Slams Through Wall of Flatbush Grocery (Gothamist)
    • Michael Kimmelman Looks at Public Space from Ped Plazas to Penn Station (NYT)
    • In Chelsea, Private Parking "Sky Garages" Cost $800,000 A Pop (NYT)

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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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