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8:59 AM EDT on April 11, 2012

    • Star-Ledger: Christie Stole ARC Money For Gas Tax, Now Must Support Gateway Tunnel
    • More Coverage of Christie's ARC Tunnel Lies (WSJ, Observer, Esquire)
    • Christie Justifies Misleading New Jersey as Defense of Principles (NYT)
    • New MTA Data Show Busiest Subways Since 1950, Buses on Decline (Transpo Nation, Gothamist)
    • Christie and Cuomo Strengthen Grip on Port Authority By Firing Top Execs (Post)
    • Police Say Brass Punished Them For Protesting Ticket Quotas (News)
    • Hempstead Becomes Sixth Long Island Town With Complete Streets Policy (Patch)
    • Cardinal Dolan Attends Heartbreaking Funeral For Staten Island Grandmother Killed By Auto (Advance)
    • Community Planning For East Side Greenway Includes Floating Pools, Boathouse (DNAinfo)

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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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