Today’s Headlines
MTA Prepares Plan for Service Cuts in Case Budget Woes Persist (NYT, Metro) Elmhurst Hospital Identifies Queens’ Most Dangerous Streets (News) Man Killed While Trying to Cross BQE (Gothamist) Portland Tops List of Sustainable Cities; NYC #4 (Dot Earth) State Subpoenas Data on LIRR Disability Claims (NYT, News, AP) Shuttered Garage Keeps Doing Business, Stores … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:58 AM EDT on September 23, 2008
- MTA Prepares Plan for Service Cuts in Case Budget Woes Persist (NYT, Metro)
- Elmhurst Hospital Identifies Queens’ Most Dangerous Streets (News)
- Man Killed While Trying to Cross BQE (Gothamist)
- Portland Tops List of Sustainable Cities; NYC #4 (Dot Earth)
- State Subpoenas Data on LIRR Disability Claims (NYT, News, AP)
- Shuttered Garage Keeps Doing Business, Stores Cars on the Street (NYT)
- 2008: Year of the Parking Space? (City Room)
- Finance Committee of MTA Board Votes to Toll NYPD, FDNY (Post)
- More on Spike in Fuel Costs for MTA Buses (NY1)
- Election ’08 Car Ownership Tally: McCain 13, Obama 1 (Newsweek)
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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