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
Car-Dependent States Hit Hardest by Obesity Epidemic
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States where more people drive to work face an even worse obesity crisis. Graphic: Noah Kazis and Carly Clark Transportation is a public health issue. As profiled in the recently released report from the Trust for America’s Health, "F as in Fat," obesity rates continue to rise across the nation, increasing the risk of serious […]
Big Box Mall’s Giant Parking Garage a Predictable, Preventable Waste
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Despite copious subsidized parking at East River Plaza, most customers still walk or take transit to get there. Who could have seen that coming? Image: Curbed In a surprise to few, the wannabe-suburban East River Plaza big box mall can’t fill its 1,428 space parking lot. As the Wall Street Journal reported this week, Manhattan […]
Greenpoint Ave Bridge Plan Adds Bike Lanes With Fat Buffers
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The proposed redesign for the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Queens. Image: NYCDOT Here’s a look at NYCDOT’s plan for the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge [PDF], which would give cyclists traveling between Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Sunnyside, Queens a safer and more comfortable ride by installing bike lanes with extra-wide buffers. The project recently got […]
Victims’ Families and Electeds Urge Paterson to Sign Traffic Safety Law
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Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer pressed for traffic safety legislation. He was joined by, from left, Council Member Margaret Chin, the families of Hayley Ng and Diego Martinez, State Senator Daniel Squadron and Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely White. Photo: Noah Kazis With the stroke of a pen, Governor David Paterson could make New York’s […]
Manhattan Bridge Rehab Plans Pose Challenges for Bike-Ped Safety
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DOT needs to make a strong safety plan for the year when construction will take place above the Manhattan Bridge bikeway. Image: NYCDOT The cables holding up the Manhattan Bridge need to be replaced, one of the final stages in a massive rehabilitation that began all the way back in 1982. The cable project will […]
Traffic Remains Top Injury-Related Killer of New York City’s Children
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Transportation-related injuries, overwhelmingly caused by motorists hitting pedestrians, remain a top killer of New York City children. Graphic: NYC Department of Health New York’s public transportation keeps children alive. New York City traffic kills them. Those are the fundamental facts that explain injury fatality rates among the city’s children, according to the Department of Health. […]
Eyes on the Street: If You Build It, They Will Sit
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A Soho shopper takes a break on a new bench between the sidewalk and the bus bulb. Construction’s still underway on this block. Photo: Paco Abraham A couple weeks ago, we showed how the bus bulbs on Lower Broadway were being integrated with the sidewalk next to them. For drainage reasons, a small gap and […]
What Does American Exceptionalism Mean For Livable Streets?
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Rush hour in Copenhagen. Photo: Complete Streets Coalition Is the United States exceptional? It’s a question that’s bedeviled activists and historians alike since the country was born 234 years ago this Sunday. It’s also a question that’s been bugging Barbara McCann, the executive director of the Complete Streets Coalition. She’s been at Velo-City, a bike […]
With 34th Street Plaza in Doubt, Local Business Group Expresses Support
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DOT’s plan for a public plaza on 34th between Fifth and Sixth may be in jeopardy, but Dan Biederman, head of the 34th Street Partnership, wants to see more pedestrian space on the block. Image: NYCDOT Earlier this week, DNAinfo reported that NYCDOT may nix the pedestrian plaza in the agency’s ambitious proposal for a […]
For a Reasonable Price on Bike Parking, Try Brooklyn
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The Bicycle Access to Garages Law is in effect, but just because you can park your bike in a garage, doesn’t mean you want to. At many garages, the prices are absurdly high. At 62nd and Columbus, a month of bike parking costs $175. One garage at Bowery and Canal charges $211.19 for a month and […]
Telling the Story of Chicago, One Train Stop at a Time
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The Train Stop Guide website would allow you to rate and describe every train stop in Chicago. Image: Carfree Chicago. It’s amazing how much a strong transit system can reshape the city around it. And not just through the physical changes that transit brings, but the mental ones too. A transit system can reshape the […]
Final Deal on New Domino Locks in Parking, Adds Shuttle Buses
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Add a whole lot more cars and some shuttle buses to this picture, and you’ve got the approved plan for the New Domino. Image: The New Domino The New Domino development slated for the Williamsburg waterfront passed the City Council’s land use committee yesterday in a unanimous vote, thanks to a last-minute deal between the […]