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8:59 AM EDT on June 4, 2012

    • State Judge Blocks Livery Street Hail Plan (WSJ)
    • News: Mandatory Helmet Law "Meddlesome, Unnecessary," Especially With Bike-Share Coming
    • County Execs, Demanding Tappan Zee Transit, Weigh Options Before Key Vote (Newsday)
    • Brooklyn Drunk Driver Speeds Through Red Light, Kills 49-Year-Old Pedestrian William Boney (News)
    • New Long Island Freight Rail Terminal Takes Trucks Off The Road (CBS)
    • Aqueduct Casino Plan Negotiations Collapse (NYT)
    • Schumer, Babylon Convene Long Island Smart Growth Task Force (MTR)
    • Boston Bike-Share Trounces Ridership Projections, All Without a Serious Crash (Globe)
    • Times Readers Sound Off on Bike-Share
    • PPW Antagonist Jim Walden Now National Face of Opposition to Safer Bike Lanes (USA Today)
    • Crain's Profiles Mega-Developers Related Companies
    • The MTA Already Has Grades for Station Cleanliness (News)

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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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