Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Pedro Espada‘s Bronx Charity Spends Big on Hulking SUVs, Luxury Cars, Other Guzzlers (Post) Utah’s Tough Texting Ban: Offenders Who Kill Get Up to 15 Years in Prison (NYT) Surprise: Now That TEAs Can Enforce Blocking-the-Box, Drivers See ‘Shakedown’ (AMNY) Parking Tickets Decline in ’09; Revenues Down $30 Mil (Post) The Times Gets 30 Minutes … Continued

By Ben Fried

8:56 AM EDT on August 31, 2009

Pedro Espada‘s Bronx Charity Spends Big on Hulking SUVs, Luxury Cars, Other Guzzlers (Post)
Utah’s Tough Texting Ban: Offenders Who Kill Get Up to 15 Years in Prison (NYT)
Surprise: Now That TEAs Can Enforce Blocking-the-Box, Drivers See ‘Shakedown’ (AMNY)
Parking Tickets Decline in ’09; Revenues Down $30 Mil (Post)
The Times Gets 30 Minutes With Ray Kelly and Comes Away With 900 Words About Ties
Woman Critically Injured By Speeding Van Driver Exiting Van Wyck (News)
Placard Abuse, Illegal Parking Rampant in Mid-Queens (NY1)
Do You Have Clothing That Says ‘NYPD’ On It? Then You, Too, Can Commit Placard Fraud (Post)
Someone Stole Gersh Kuntzman’s Bike, Again (Bklyn Paper)
Why Is It So Hard To Install a Public Toilet in NYC? (NYT)
Doc Sits on Traffic Agents’ Car, Becomes Folk Hero to Aggrieved Motorists (Woodside Herald)

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.

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