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 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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