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8:59 AM EDT on April 18, 2012

    • Senate Republicans, Suburban Dems, and Chris Christie Oppose Transit Commuter Tax (Gothamist)
    • Mike Rogalle Struck by FDNY Inspector in SUV While Walking on Lower Manhattan Sidewalk (News)
    • Bronx Cyclists Plan Month of Events to Push for Better Bike Infrastructure (DNAinfo)
    • Zoning Changes Haven't Stopped Illegal Curb Cuts in Midwood (News)
    • Bloomberg Fast-Tracks Grand Central-Area Upzoning as Legacy Item (News)
    • Even on Home Opener, Subsidized Yankee Stadium Garages All But Empty (NBC)
    • Winning Bike Lanes Still Uphill Battle in Bay Ridge (NextAmCity)
    • Times Asks UES Germophobe to Psychoanalyze Riders of Exotic Three-Door Buses
    • SoHo BP Gas Station Hopes to Rent Out Garage, Currently "Underutilized" (DNAinfo)
    • Family of Henry Garcia, Teen Slain While Biking, Can't Afford Funeral (News)
    • Taxi-Truck Collision Injures Three, Sends Cab Into Side of Hotel (Fox, Gothamist)
    • Jason Gay: Get on a Bike, But Please Take Off Your Headphones (WSJ)

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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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