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
What Should Replace the Sheridan? TIGER II Could Fund an Official Answer
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A city-endorsed plan for the site of the Sheridan Expressway could help replace that highway with housing, jobs, and parks. NYC DOT just applied for federal funding for such a study. Image: Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance Thirteen projects in the New York City region are up for consideration to receive funding from the U.S. […]
Construction Narrows Brooklyn Bridge Bike-Ped Path
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During the Brooklyn Bridge rehab, stretches of the 14-foot-wide bike-ped path will be narrowed to 11 feet. Photo: Noah Kazis Heads up if you bike or walk across the Brooklyn Bridge: Rehab work slated to last until 2014 is narrowing the promenade from 14 feet to 11 feet. Right now, paint removal work has narrowed […]
Eyes on the Street: Gravelly Bike-Ped Path Through Brooklyn Bridge Park
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Construction is still underway, but the bike-ped path through Brooklyn Bridge Park is open. Photo: Noah Kazis A vital link in the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway is open, as a path through Brooklyn Bridge Park for pedestrians and cyclists nears completion. Though the park is still far from complete, the path cuts straight through the construction, […]
UES Park Smart Pilot Goes Where NYC Meter Rates Have Never Gone Before
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Park Smart’s third pilot area will bring peak hour parking rates more in line with demand on the Upper East Side. Image: NYCDOT We wrote yesterday about the expansion of the Park Smart pilot in Park Slope, but that’s not the only neighborhood where the program is on the move. As of June, the Upper […]
Roosevelt Island Aims to Pioneer Bike-Sharing in NYC
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A rendering of a bike-sharing station at the Roosevelt Island F train station. Image: AccessRI/Hunter College Dept. of Urban Affairs and Planning. As cities across the United States open new bike-sharing systems this year, New York City’s commitment to launching bike-share remains cloudy. On the semi-independent Roosevelt Island, however, momentum is building to launch a […]
Park Smart Pilot Has Cut Traffic in Park Slope, DOT Finds
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Double parking on Fifth Avenue is one sign that the price of parking is too low. Photo: Ben Fried They call it No-Park Slope for a reason: At many times of day, motorists looking for a legit spot in this Brooklyn neighborhood wind up cruising the streets endlessly in frustration. Because on-street parking spaces are […]
DOT Proposes Safety Fixes to Help People Reach Harlem River Park
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Bridge traffic and very wide streets make the intersection of 135th and Madison difficult for pedestrians to cross, impeding access to the Harlem River Park. Image: Google Street View One of the biggest planning stories of the last decade is undoubtedly the opening of the New York City waterfront to the public. Across much of […]
Fair Share Charter Fix Could Reduce Truck Traffic Burden for Some Nabes
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A truck loading at a waste transfer station in the South Bronx. Photo: jrwiener via Flickr A proposed amendment to the City Charter could help free certain neighborhoods from the grip of truck traffic and other unhealthy side effects of public facilities. Although the Charter Revision Commission looked set to leave New York’s land use […]
APTA Report Prescribes Public Transport to Improve Public Health
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Transit use is correlated with decreases in the number of traffic crashes. Image: "Evaluating Public Transportation Health Benefits" A new report written by the Victoria Transport Policy Institute’s Todd Litman for the American Public Transit Association [PDF], the trade organization for the nation’s transit agencies, reminds us that one of the most valuable benefits of […]
The Hudson River Park Bike Seizure: Why’d They Do It?
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Though there’s a rule forbidding parking bikes to objects that aren’t racks, it’s easy to miss unless you already know what to look for. Photos: Noah Kazis Last Saturday, ten cyclists returned to where they had parked their bikes in Hudson River Park to find them gone. They had been attached to a railing along […]
Walk Score Goes Multimodal With the Addition of Transit Score
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Like much of Manhattan, Streetsblog HQ nets a "Rider’s Paradise" rating from Transit Score. One of the simplest and best tools for promoting walkable development has branched out into the full range of car-free transportation. Walk Score, the website which measures how many neighborhood amenities are within walking distance of a given location, has added […]
Action Plan Ups NYC’s Commitment to Ped Safety, But Is NYPD on Board?
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Mayor Bloomberg discusses DOT’s Pedestrian Safety Study and Action Plan at yesterday’s press conference with several elected officials, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, and NYPD Chief of Transportation James Tuller. Photo: Noah Kazis "Safety isn’t just about statistics," NYCDOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan said yesterday while announcing her agency’s new Pedestrian Safety Study and Action Plan. "It’s […]