Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on April 2, 2012
- Bill Bratton, 16 Years Off Force, Still Gets a Parking Placard From NYPD (Post)
- City Plans to Cut 500 Cars From Municipal Fleet (Post)
- Crain’s: MTA Needs New Revenue Beyond the Farebox
- Even Adding Sidewalk Draws Protest From Pelham Parkway Motorists (News)
- City Gets Down to Details for Taxi of Tomorrow (NYT)
- Will Phil Goldfeder Also Support Speeding Cameras? (News)
- Columnist: Cuomo to Be Remembered For “Bait And Switch” on Tappan Zee (LoHud)
- Gridlock Sam Toll Plan Draws Radio Silence From Mayoral Candidates (Reuters)
- Senators from NY, NJ Call For Expedited Review of Bayonne Bridge Raising (Advance)
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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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