Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on March 19, 2012
- Remembering Slain Cyclists, New Yorkers Call for Slower Traffic (WSJ)
- Bay Ridge Community Board Nixes Road Diet for Second Time (Bklyn Paper)
- State Issues Tappan Zee RFP Before Public Comment Period Ends (LoHud)
- The Times Gives a Platform to Merchants Who Want Jackson Heights Plaza to Fail
- De Blasio and Markowitz Join Push to Keep G Train Extension (News)
- Upper West Side Advocates Want Neighborhood-Wide 20 MPH Limit (PIX 11)
- Ray LaHood and Frank Lautenberg Still Want a Trans-Hudson Rail Tunnel (Transpo Nation)
- Staten Island Man Crosses Street for Pizza, Driver Puts Him Close to Death (Advance)
- Newsday: Federal Mass Transit Support Critical for Region
- More Hard-Hitting Journalism From the Times Transpo Beat
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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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