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By Noah Kazis

8:58 AM EDT on July 9, 2012

Crain’s Gets Some New Details on Grand Central Upzoning Plan, Coming Soon
…Including a Five-Block Ped Plaza That The Post Does Not Approve Of
Cuomo Sends in Top Aide to Take Over Tappan Zee Project (Post)
County Execs Don’t Want TZB Vote Until September, When Information Available (LoHud)
SoHo Minivan Driver Hits Two Pedestrians, Mounts Sidewalk (DNAinfo)
SUV Driver Rear-Ends City Bus, Sends Six to Hospital (DNAinfo)
On East 109th, The Street Is Still Used For Stickball (NYT)
Stereotypes Busted: Check Out The NYT‘s Photo Representing Un-Gentrified Brooklyn
NYC Isn’t Anywhere Near Introducing Driverless Trains (Atlantic Cities)
Would Olympics 2024 Bring Another Round of New Infrastructure? (News)
Medical Foundation Exec: I Bike to Work For Speed, Exercise and Time Outside (NYT)
At CT Train Stations, Riders Group Pushes For Subsidized Parking Over TOD (The Hour)

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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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