Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EST on January 27, 2012
- “Most Gerrymandered Lines” in Memory Shortchange Dems, NYC (NY World)
- Pedestrian Struck Once, Killed By Second Driver While Waiting For Ambulance (ABC 7)
- Hoboken, Jersey City Hope to Have Joint Bike-Share Running This Summer (Jersey Journal)
- Transit Use on the Rise in Even the Most Distant Parts of Brooklyn (Bk Bureau)
- Lhota Wants to Expand Williamsburg’s Booming L Stations (News)
- Queens Electeds Rally For Free Driving on Cross Bay Bridge (Times-Ledger)
- Chris Christie Proposes Statewide Smart Growth Plan (WSJ)
- Legislators Chafe at Cuomo’s Tight-Lipped Transportation Plans (Times Union)
- Riverkeeper: Tappan Zee Plan Hasty Rush Toward Unsustainable Bridge
- Atlantic Yards Plan to Reduce Driving Delayed By Months (AYR 1, 2)
- “Hasids vs. Hipsters” Spreads From Williamsburg to Crown Heights (News)
- Why Did LIRR Cancel Two Trains to Catch One iPhone Thief? (Post)
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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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