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Today’s Headlines

8:08 AM EDT on September 7, 2010

    • Obama Calls for $50B Infrastructure Investment to Create Jobs (NYT, USA Today)
    • The New Broadway Feels Broader to Pedestrians and Cyclists, But Not to the Times
    • Driver Kills 70-Year-Old Woman Walking Across 3rd Ave; Police Issue a Ticket But No Charges (News)
    • 5 Injured as Cabbie Jumps Curb and Crashes Into First Ave Coffee Shop (News, Post, Gothamist)
    • ...And the Post Finds Someone Who Blames the Bike Lane
    • Felix Salmon Posits a Unified Theory of NYC Cyclist Behavior
    • Family and Friends Will Hold a Memorial for Robert Bowen, Victim of Hit-and-Run on 2nd Ave (Post)
    • Staten Island Assistant DA Caught Driving Drunk in Hell's Kitchen (Post)
    • Paterson OKs Parking Permit System for Downtown Albany (Times Union)
    • Zombies Get Red Light Cam Tickets, and They Don't Fly Into a Murderous Rage About It (Boing Boing)

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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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