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8:52 AM EDT on May 22, 2009

    • Watered Down Climate Bill Clears House Committee (NYT)
    • NY1 Poll: New Yorkers Don't Trust MTA, And They Don't Blame Albany
    • More Than a Hundred Malls Are Headed Toward Oblivion (WSJ)
    • New Metro-North Station Opens at Yankee Stadium (City Room)
    • Next-Gen Metrocard Could Debut By 2011 (News, Post)
    • Bklyn Paper: RPP Won't Solve Downtown Brooklyn Parking Woes
    • Bigger Sidewalks, Planted Medians Springing Up on Jackson Avenue (Outer B)
    • Residents Lobby for, Receive Conversion to One-Way Streets in Kew Gardens Hills (News)
    • Advocates to NY, NJ Pols: Don't Divert Transpo Money to WTC Development (MTR) 
    • DOT Relocates Commuter Bus Parking to Chelsea, Not Tribeca (Chelsea Now)
    • After Ped Deaths, Savannah Cops Go After Jaywalkers (Sustainable Savannah via Streetsblog.net)
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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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