Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
9:16 AM EST on February 8, 2010
- Sounds Familiar: CompStat Critique Says Not All Crimes Make the Cut (NYT 1, 2)
- Rumor Mill at Full Tilt Over Supposed Paterson “Bombshell” (TBI via Gothamist)
- Bloomberg Says MTA Retirees Should Also Lose MetroCard Privileges (SAS)
- Post: Capital Construction Staffing Up as Megaproject Budgets Balloon
- Cue Cuozzo: Everyone Hates the New Times Square, Even If No One Will Say So
- Sadik-Khan Details the Meters-to-Bike Racks Rollout (Post)
- Marty Markowitz, Foe of Real-Life Plan for Safer PPW, Dreams of a Tamed Fourth Ave (Bklyn Paper)
- Plans for Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza on Display Through Saturday (Bklyn Eagle)
- State to Drop Hundreds of Millions to “Ease Congestion” at Kew Gardens Interchange (News)
- Tale of DC Blogger Hit by G-Man Less About Street Safety Than Partisan Sniping (via GGW)
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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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