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Brooklyn Paper Launches New Transpo Beat

To complement your headlines today, check out the Brooklyn Paper's trio of transportation/public space stories, grouped under a new beat that the paper is calling "Mean Streets."

meanstreets.jpgTo complement your headlines today, check out the Brooklyn Paper’s trio of transportation/public space stories, grouped under a new beat that the paper is calling “Mean Streets.”

The “Mean Streets” label may be a bit sensationalized, but hopefully New York’s big dailies will start poaching the Brooklyn Paper’s street-level reporting style.

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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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