Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
10:39 AM EDT on September 29, 2009
Sorry for the delay, folks. We’re having technical difficulties this morning.
- Media Try to Rouse Interest in Today’s Runoffs (Post, News, NYT)
- 12-Year-Old Brooklyn Girl Critically Injured by Hit-and-Run Driver (Post, NY1)
- Drunk Off-Duty Cop Kills Brooklyn Pedestrian, Charged With Manslaughter (NYT, Post, Post)
- Driver, Second Officer Suspended (NY1, NYT); DWI Evidence May Be Botched (News 1, 2)
- Officer in Charge of NYPD Parking Crackdown Busted for Placard Abuse (Post)
- Robert Sullivan: Time to Bring Multi-Modalism Back to the Brooklyn Bridge (NYT)
- Is the MTA Coming Around on Data Sharing? (NYT)
- Capital Plan Includes Support for Long Island TOD (MTR)
- Manhattan BID Proposes Revamp of Traffic-Choked Greenwich South (City Room)
- Developer Wants More Parking to Offset Building Costs; Bronx CB Balks (R’dale Press)
- National Park Service Favors Auto Traffic to Recreation (GGW via Streetsblog.net)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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