Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:45 AM EST on December 9, 2010
- Riverside Center Mega-Development Clears City Council Hurdle (Crain’s, WSJ)
- The Final Deal Lets Extell Build Whopping 1,500 Parking Spaces (Details to Come)
- Innovator Gabe Klein Is Out at DC DOT as New Administration Comes to City Hall (GGW, WaPo)
- Jury Convicts Drunk Driver Who Killed Ysemny Ramos of Manslaughter (News)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Man Sitting on the Curb in Jamaica (ABC7)
- B82 Bus Rider Takes Out Anger Over Slow Speed By Attacking Bus Driver (Post)
- Kips Bay Ped Plaza NIMBYs Live in Fear of Garbage-Strewn Dystopia (DNAinfo)
- Roosevelt Islander: New Parking Tech Is Good, But Why Add More Car Storage Where It’s Not Needed?
- New Subway Transfer in Downtown Brooklyn Opens Tomorrow; LIC Transfer Coming in Feb (NY1)
- Ex-DEP Commish Emily Lloyd Will Succeed Tupper Thomas as Prospect Park Boss (City Room)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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