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8:59 AM EST on February 13, 2012

    • Hit-And-Run Driver Kills Staten Island Cyclist Near Wagner College (Advance, News)
    • Luis Rosado, Great-Grandfather, Killed By Hit-And-Run Livery Cab Driver in Harlem (News, Post)
    • Dawn Affoumani, 45, Killed By Hit-and-Run Driver While Crossing Bronx Street (Post)
    • Bronx Helpers Get Daily News Attention for Their Slow Zone Bid
    • Parents Request Speed Bumps, Mirrors to Help Them Cross Hicks Street (Bklyn Paper)
    • Queens Reps: Rockaway Branch Should Be Rail, Not Park (News)
    • Tappan Zee Bus Improvements Need Not Wait For Full BRT (Record)
    • Cuomo Would Double Tappan Zee Traffic Capacity, Has No Funding Plan (WSJ)
    • MTA Labor Coalition: With Transit, Tappan Zee Would Create More Jobs (LoHud)
    • Moynihan Station Plans Scaled Back in Response to Potential Cost Overruns (WSJ)
    • Paterson: Nothing in Port Authority Audit Was a Secret (Transpo Nation)
    • Schumer and Israel: New York Depends on Transit, Deserves Same Tax Benefits (News)

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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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