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8:59 AM EST on March 9, 2012

    • Steve Levin: 88 Percent of Atlantic Ave. Drivers Exceed Speed Limit by Over 10 MPH (Bklyn Paper)
    • Mayoral Candidates Good Enough on Transit, But Who Will Lead? (Capital)
    • In Prospect Park Point-Counterpoint, Both Sides Want Cars Out (Bklyn Daily 1, 2)
    • Unlicensed Domino's Driver Hits and Kills East New York Grandmother, Flees Scene (Post)
    • After Month-Long Hiatus, MTA/TWU Negotiations Recommence (Post)
    • Lack of Parking Doesn't Put a Damper on Demand at Via Verde (WSJ)
    • Fear and Loathing of Public Spaces in Kensington (Bklyn Daily)
    • Borders for Brooklyn Bike-Share: Rogers Avenue, Lefferts Avenue (Crown Racks)
    • Criticism Critics Want Kimmelman to Write More About Buildings, Less About Cities (Observer)

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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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