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Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.

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Bicycling

Top Bloomberg Adviser Sets Record Straight on Local Support for Bike Lanes

What Backlash? Q Poll Finds 54 Percent of NYC Voters Support Bike Lanes

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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Stringer Explains His “Philosophy of Public Engagement” on Street Designs

Questions Remain for Hunter’s Point South Transpo Plan

What Happens When Senator Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Like the New Bike Lane?

DOT’s Interactive Map Points the Way to a More Livable Jackson Heights

Oddo: Bike Lanes Were Just to Grab Attention for Loosening Enviro Review

Doug Gordon is the co-host of <a href="https://thewaroncars.org/">The War on Cars</a> podcast and the co-author of <a href="https://www.lifeaftercars.com/">Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile</a>,” coming in October 2025 from Thesis, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

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