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 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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