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.
Recent Posts
Partial Service Restorations Aren’t Good Enough For City Pols, TWU
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Across the city, New Yorkers are still demanding their transit back. A dozen elected officials joined the Transport Workers Union on the steps of City Hall this afternoon to demand that all of 2010’s MTA service cuts be restored. Around one-third of the eliminated service will be reinstated under a plan released by the MTA […]
Without Big Toll Hikes, Cuomo’s Tappan Zee Puts Transit Riders at Risk
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Andrew Cuomo’s Tappan Zee Bridge does next to nothing for transit riders; the governor is unwilling to spend even $150 million on incremental transit improvements, much less put in the work to design a full transit corridor. But could it also hurt the existing transit system? If Cuomo isn’t willing to make drivers pay the […]
Bus Lane Rehab and Utica Ave SBS Win Federal Transit Grants
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New York City was awarded nearly $50 million in federal grants to improve its bus service, the Federal Transit Administration announced today. The money will go toward both the basics, like a new radio system for buses, and new and improved bus lanes to speed service further. The planned Select Bus Service improvements on Utica […]
In Mistake-Marred Letter, CB 6 Lends Voice to East Side Bike-Share NIMBYs
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Where can bike-share stations be located, according to the East Side’s not-in-my-backyard crowd? Not Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, which is both too serene for bikes and too crowded with protestors. Not around the corner from the Israeli consulate, which is too fat a target for terrorists who, as Marcia Kramer could tell you, prefer to deliver explosives via […]
Cyclist Gets Retaliatory Ticket For Telling Cop to Stop Blocking Bike Lane
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Here’s an argument for using cameras to enforce traffic laws: getting cops like this off of the traffic beat. As first reported in the Daily News, Brooklyn cyclist Ben Kopciel was issued a $200 ticket earlier this month in what looks like a retaliatory gesture for telling an NYPD officer to get out of the […]
MTA Partially Restores Transit Service and Adds Some New Bus Routes
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The MTA is starting to repair some of the damage done by 2010’s devastating round of service cuts. The transit agency has announced a new set of transit service improvements worth $29 million a year, making up roughly a third of what was cut in 2010. Riders will also get a two-month reprieve from next […]
DOT Plans Nine Miles of Bike Lanes For LIC, Sunnyside, With More to Come
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Bike lane mileage in Long Island City and Sunnyside, Queens, is set to double next year, under a preliminary plan from the Department of Transportation, with significant expansions to follow in subsequent years. The nine miles of new routes — along 11th Street, Skillman Avenue, 47th Avenue and 39th Street — were selected in a […]
Hit-and-Run Killing Is Second Cyclist Fatality on Greenpoint Ave Since April
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A motorist struck and killed a cyclist in Sunnyside Queens last night, then fled the scene, according to the NYPD. The cyclist, a 37-year-old Hispanic man whose name is being withheld until his family can be notified, died at the scene. Witnesses told the New York Post that the driver was “flying by at an […]
Despite Cuomo Admin Claims, Westchester Is Interested in On-Street BRT
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The Cuomo administration keeps finding obstacles to Tappan Zee Bridge transit that don’t exist. Chief among them is a phony $5 billion price tag, but there are others as well. One example is the purported local opposition to running transit on existing streets, rather than in highway medians or on expensive new viaducts. The governor’s […]
Cuomo to Co-Host Tappan Zee Public Meetings With Anti-Transit Ideologues
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Up to now, the Cuomo administration hasn’t shown a great regard for public input when it comes to the new Tappan Zee Bridge. The administration dismissed five stakeholder advisory groups, which had been set up to let interested parties dig deep into the details of the project, and shuttered the public outreach offices located on […]
Citi Bike Launch Pushed Back From July to August
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The city’s bike-share system will launch in August, not the previously announced start date of July, according to the Citi Bike Twitter feed. Two months ago, city officials announced that New Yorkers would be able to start taking trips on the new public bike system by late July. Now bike-share operator Alta is telling prospective […]
The Bronx Helpers Bring Home a 20 MPH Slow Zone
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The Bronx Helpers set out to get a stop sign. They won 17 blocks of safer streets. The Mt. Eden neighborhood was one of 13 neighborhoods selected as a 20 mph slow zone this week, and one of only four slated for installation this year. The successful push for a safer speed limit and the […]