Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on May 11, 2012
- QPoll Shows Two to One Support For Bike-Share System (News)
- … But Daily News Prints Four Anti-Bike Screeds in Letters Section
- Westchester League of Women Voters Blasts State For Stripping Transit From Tappan Zee (LoHud)
- State Looks to Tolls to Pay For New Tappan Zee (Transpo Nation)
- Should Some NJ Transit Buses Skip Port Authority, Load on East Side Streets? (Star-Ledger)
- Dashane Santana’s Grandmother Fights to Rename Dangerous Delancey For Slain Teen (DNAinfo)
- Mean Streets: With Gersh in Charge, the Times’ Local Transpo Coverage Is All About Conflict
- Car-Free Fulton Mall Still a Retail All-Star (WSJ)
- MTA May Contract Out Retail Operations in East Side Access Concourse (Crain’s)
- EDC Chief Calls For Construction Industry Reform, More Infrastructure Spending (Real Deal)
- In Greenpoint, Battle For Sidewalk Space Pits Brunch Against Churchgoers (NYT)
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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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