Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EST on January 30, 2012
- Journal News: Tappan Zee Plan “Shortsighted,” Planning “Superficial”
- Staten Island Woman Hit While Crossing Street, Unlikely to Survive (Advance 1, 2)
- In Cross-Bronx Crash, Sister Saved Boxer’s Life Before Dying Herself (News)
- As Negotiations Continue, MTA Sets Disciplinary Quotas, TWU Threatens Slowdown (Post, News)
- “Increase Pedestrian Flow” in SoHo? Sean Sweeney Flips Out (NYT)
- Lew Fidler Still Parking on Borough Hall Sidewalk (Post)
- Bike-Share Gets a Positive Promo From International Business Times
- Bridge Authority Toll Hike Takes Effect Today (Post)
- Gelinas: Tolls Not Enough to Pay for Tappan Zee, So What Will? (Torch)
- Elevator Crash Gets Citywide Reaction, Traffic Crashes Get Police Obstruction (Drum Major)
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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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