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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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Bus Rapid Transit

The Tappan Zee Questions Cuomo Won’t Answer and the Times Won’t Ask

NYMTC

Astorino and Vanderhoef Can Block Transit-Less Tappan Zee. Will They?

Tappan Zee Bridge

Transit-Free Tappan Zee Bridge Financial Plan: It’s “Dynamic”!

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Cuomo: Robert Moses Would Be Proud of My Transit-Free Tappan Zee Bridge

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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State GOP: Cuomo’s Transit-Less Tappan Zee Would Be Obsolete on Day One

Feds Reject Loan Application for Cuomo’s Transit-less Tappan Zee Bridge

Advocates Ask for TZB Details, Cuomo Admin Gives Them the Runaround

Environmental Review

Denise Richardson on Highway Tolls, the TZB, and Why Projects Cost So Much

Advocates: Tappan Zee Plans Violate State, Federal Environmental Laws

Cuomo Deal Could Clear the Way for a Transit-Oriented Tappan Zee