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
Shakespeare In The Park(ing) Spot
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In New York City, some of the most active participants in Park(ing) Day, the celebration of on-street public space, are students. The largest street reclamation I saw today was put on by Fordham undergraduates, who converted what looked like three parking spaces into a stage and auditorium for a day of Shakespeare In The Parking […]
Park(ing) Day 2011: Find Your Favorite Park(ing) Spot
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The forecast is sunny and seasonable for Park(ing) Day 2011 here in New York City, so get ready to enjoy the annual celebration of the public spaces that are our neighborhood streets. At 34 locations in all five boroughs, New Yorkers will be taking over curbside parking spaces with installations that are by turns relaxing, […]
Lower East Side Electeds Come Together for Safer Delancey Street
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Delancey Street is one of the most dangerous roads in the city. Between 2008 and 2010 alone, 134 pedestrians and cyclists were hit by drivers on Delancey, according to Transportation Alternatives, and two were killed on the street this year. Last week, Streetsblog reported on a new design for the base of the Williamsburg Bridge […]
DOT Wants Your Help to Decide Where Bike-Share Stations Will Go
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When bike-share goes live next year, stations will be located every few blocks throughout Manhattan below 79th Street, give or take a few blocks, and much of northwest Brooklyn. The exact locations of the stations have yet to be decided, and siting them will be a big task for bike-share planners this fall. DOT is […]
Unscientific Survey Says: 100 Percent of New Yorkers Support Bike-Share
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At today’s big bike-share press conference, most reporters seemed enthralled by the prospect of thousands of new cyclists hitting the streets and, of course, failing to follow the rules of the road (whether they were scared of that scenario or salivating over it is not clear). One reporter also told us she was “just scouting […]
One Year Later, Businesses and Residents Back Safer Union Square
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It’s been a year since DOT made more room for pedestrians and cyclists around Union Square, and a recent survey shows a neighborhood happy with its new public spaces. Feedback from businesses and residents led DOT to back away from its original proposal to, among other things, close two blocks of Union Square West to […]
Gale Brewer Launches Survey on Columbus Avenue Bike Lane
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Since a working group of elected officials and community leaders studied and tweaked the design of the parking-protected bike lane along Columbus Avenue in February, things have been relatively quiet on the Upper West Side. Now that the lane, which runs from 77th to 96th Street, is a year old and residents have had some […]
Traffic Still the Top Injury-Related Killer of NYC Kids
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Every year, the Department of Health releases a report on the injuries that kill NYC children [PDF]. And every year, the grim statistics show traffic to be the single largest cause of injury-related death among kids. Between 2001 and 2009, 1,681 children under 13 years old died in New York City, 324 of them from […]
CB12 Committee Okays Safe Greenway Connection For Wash. Heights Cyclists
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Upper Manhattan cyclists will finally have a safe way to exit the Hudson River Greenway at 181st Street under a plan presented by the Department of Transportation and approved by Community Board 12’s transportation committee last night. Right now, Riverside Drive north of 181st Street runs one-way and quickly becomes an on-ramp to the Henry […]
In Chelsea, Adding Parks to the Street Could Free Up Room For Housing Too
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This Friday, New Yorkers will take part in Park(ing) Day, repurposing dozens of parking spaces around the city to show what you can do with valuable curbside real estate besides storing cars. Last year, participants set up everything from “alternate side mulching” to an entire dorm room, complete with walls and a television set, to […]
City Council Leaders Support Bike-Share After Procedural Disagreement
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New York City’s bike-share plans are poised to make a big leap this week, with the city expected to select the winner of the contract to operate the system very soon, according to Transportation Nation. The announcement will come after top City Council leaders have signaled that they back bike-share. “We support the bike share […]
London Asks Would-Be Mayors For 20 MPH Speeds — What Should NYC Ask For?
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Across London, 20 mph zones combine a lower speed limit with physical street engineering and camera enforcement to create pockets of safety across the city. According to the British Medical Journal, serious traffic injuries and fatalities have fallen by 46 percent within the zones; 27 fewer Londoners are killed or seriously injured each year because […]