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8:55 AM EDT on July 13, 2012

    • Cuomo Phone Call Gets Vanderhoef to Drop Tappan Zee Bridge Objections (Crain's)
    • Gelinas: Plenty of Room For Compromise on Cheaper Tappan Zee Transit (Post)
    • Newsday Editor: Critics Right to Seek Answers on Tappan Zee Bridge Plans
    • City Rejects Residential Parking Permits For Stadium Neighborhoods (Post)
    • Next Level of NYPD Ticket Fixing Scandal: Officer Charged With Hiring Hit Man to Kill Witness (NYT)
    • Driver of Stolen Car Crashes Into Village Scaffolding, Sends Pedestrian to Hospital (News)
    • Driver Killed After Smashing Through Brick Wall of Bronx Storefront (News, Post)
    • Hell's Kitchen Launches Education and Enforcement Push For Delivery Cyclists (DNAinfo)
    • Dan Garodnick and Jimmy Van Bramer Rally Against Electric Bikes (DNAinfo)
    • Financial Disclosure Requirements Leave Out Unpaid Boards Like Taxi, Landmarks Commissions (WSJ)
    • More NYT Transpo Answers: Why No Train to LaGuardia, How Subway Stations Are Named
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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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