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NYC Expected to Make Plans for East Side Select Bus Service Official Today (NYT, News) Gulf Catastrophe Weighs on Gas Guzzling Americans Like a Feather (NPR) Is BP the Next AIG? (Post) Summer of 2008 a Distant Memory for Growing Ranks of SUV Buyers (Transpo Nation) Big Rig Driver Crushes Staten Island Grandmother to Death; … Continued
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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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