Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Unmarked Cop Car Runs Light, Strikes and Injures Pedestrian on Queens Blvd (News) Komanoff: What’s the Matter With Downtown’s City Council Candidates? (Downtown Express) Streetsblog Nominates Baruch Herzfeld for Nobel Peace Prize (The Forward) One-Way Kent Ave Config Is in Effect; Will New Truck Route Be Enforced? (News) MTA Tests New, Quieter Turbine-Engine Bus (City … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:09 AM EDT on August 28, 2009

Unmarked Cop Car Runs Light, Strikes and Injures Pedestrian on Queens Blvd (News)
Komanoff: What’s the Matter With Downtown’s City Council Candidates? (Downtown Express)
Streetsblog Nominates Baruch Herzfeld for Nobel Peace Prize (The Forward)
One-Way Kent Ave Config Is in Effect; Will New Truck Route Be Enforced? (News)
MTA Tests New, Quieter Turbine-Engine Bus (City Room, 2nd Ave Sagas, AMNY, Post)
Three Injured in Chelsea Cab Crash Yesterday (1010 WINS)
Paterson Signs Weak Distracted Driving Bill Into Law (NY1)
Riverdalers Wonder What Took So Long to Fix 181st Street Station Ceiling (R’dale Press)
34th Street Bus Lane Abuse: Flagrant and Rampant (Ecstatic E)
Some Day It Will Be Obvious: Downtown Freeways a Horrible Idea (Broken Sidewalk via Sblog.net)

Ben Fried

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.

Today's Headlines

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