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8:53 AM EDT on May 8, 2017

    • Cuomo: Port Authority to Spend $70 Million Studying Cross-Harbor Freight Rail (News, Post)
    • Bronx CB 4 Member Suggests Replacing Yankee Stadium Garages With Mixed-Income Housing (Post)
    • The Dream of Burying the Gowanus Is Alive in Brooklyn (Crain's)
    • 2 Inches of Rain Turned NYC Roads Into Lagoons (NYT, Patch), Swamped Oculus and Penn Station (News)
    • Four Lines Affected By Yesterday's Unexpected Subway Chaos (Gothamist)
    • Cyclists Constantly Have to Dodge Construction Vehicles and Cars Parked in Kent Ave Bike Lane (DNA)
    • SUV Driver Critically Injures 89-Year-Old Man in Howard Beach (Post, QNS)
    • Hit-and-Run Truck Driver Seriously Injures Cyclist in Bed-Stuy (Gothamist)
    • Driver Strikes, Hospitalizes Woman in Mill Basin (News12)
    • Bike Part Thieves + Crummy Sanitation Rules = Junk Bike Build-Up in Bay Ridge (Bklyn Paper)

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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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