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8:58 AM EST on February 1, 2012

    • CB 4 Chair: Put Bike-Share Stations on Street, Not Sidewalk (Transpo Nation)
    • Advocates: Reactivate Rockaway Branch, Create Rego Park Transit Hub (News)
    • Try to Expand Rail Freight, Get Investigated by the Assembly (NYT)
    • Crash Videos Don't Show Lefevre Trying to Pass Truck on Right (NYT)
    • Drunk Driver Gets Five Years Probation for Killing Six-Year-Old in Queens (Post)
    • Staten Island Advance Isn't Content With New Toll Discounts, Wants More (1, 2)
    • Buffalo and Niagara Falls Riders Rally for Albany to Support Transit (WIVB)
    • Someone Is Either Stealing Ghost Bikes, Or Pretending To (Gothamist)
    • Chris Christie Turns Port Authority Into Patronage Machine (Transpo Nation)
    • NYPD to Expand Presence on Navy Street Overpass (Bklyn Paper)
    • LeBron to Reporters: "You Guys Drove Here? You Guys Are Crazy" (WSJ)

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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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