Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on April 6, 2012
- Ray Kelly Orders NYPD to Track Bike-Ped Crashes (News)
- Cuomo Admits There’s Still No Plan to Pay for Tappan Zee Bridge (LoHud)
- In Wake of Tix Fix Scandal, Cops Start to Show Up to Traffic Court, Get Convictions (Post)
- Staten Island Woman Dies Saving Grandson From Hit-And-Run Driver (Post)
- NYT Debate Features Lots of Support For Densification of L.A.
- Kips Bay Service Road to Become Pedestrian Plaza for the Summer (DNAinfo)
- Here’s a Traffic Safety Plan Everyone Can Get Behind (News)
- Lincoln Center Opens New Pedestrian Bridge (WSJ)
- Photo Blog Turns Its Camera to Commuter Rail (NYT)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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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