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By Noah Kazis

8:59 AM EDT on May 18, 2012

Plaza Street Bike Haters Don’t Get That the New Bike Lane Won’t Narrow the Road (Bklyn Paper)
Related: Free Curbside Parking Is a Hazard to Your Mental Health (Brooklyn Paper)
Duane Street NIMBYs Love Their Ped Plaza So Much They Can’t Find Room for Bike-Share (Tribeca Trib)
Long Island Man Arrested For Drunk Driving Had 23 License Suspensions, Six Convictions (NBC)
CitiBike Designer Explains Features of “Virtually Indestructible Machine” (BusinessWeek)
West Harlem Downzoning Would Allow Tall Buildings on Only a Single Block (News)
Quinn Touts Electric Bike Crackdown as Path to Safer Cycling (Villager)
Driver Hits Pedestrian on Upper West Side, Leaving Victim in Traumatic Arrest (DNAinfo)
Kips Bay Man in Wheelchair Taken to Hospital Unconscious After Being Struck By Driver (DNAinfo)
Three Schools Sign on to Support 20 MPH Speed Limit on Upper West Side (DNAinfo)
Deadly Ferrari Driver Was Professional “Super Speeder” (Gothamist)
Photo: Cape-Clad Superhero Jimmy Van Bramer Helped Bring Bike-Share to Queens (Q Chron)

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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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