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8:54 AM EDT on June 5, 2012

    • Assm. Joe Lentol Wants Speed Cameras to Patrol Deadly McGuinness Boulevard (Bklyn Paper)
    • Astoria Debates Pedestrian Plaza For Dangerous Corner of Newtown and 33rd (DNAinfo)
    • Randall's Island Footbridge Reopens, Finally Open 24/7/365 (News)
    • Cuomo Writes Off Non-Drivers: "Tollpayers, Taxpayers, What's The Difference?" (Capital)
    • Brooklyn Assistant DA Attacks Cop After Traffic Arrest (Post)
    • Van Driver Leaves Painter in Critical Condition in Rockaway Crash (Post)
    • Weinshall Supported Helmet Law, and Post Cries Bloomberg Admin. Inconsistency
    • Senate Republicans Just Keep Attacking MTA Payroll Tax (Newsday)
    • MTA Inks $600M Contract For New Subway Cars (WSJ)
    • Up To $100 Million at Stake in Hit-And-Run Civil Suit (Fox)
    • Design Competition Reimagines East River Greenway Uptown (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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