Today’s Headlines
Have a good Martin Luther King Jr. Day everyone. We'll be offline the rest of today and posting regularly tomorrow.
By
Ben Fried
9:11 AM EST on January 17, 2011
- Eric Ulrich Hasn’t Thought This Bike ID Thing Thru; Other CMs Still Back Him, He Says (Gothamist)
- Daily News Gives Ulrich a Knucklehead Award: Bike Licensing Is “Just Dumb”
- Watch Ulrich Defend His Anti-Bike Bill on ABC 7 (via Brooklyn Spoke)
- Catering Hall Magnate Proposes 400-Space Garage for South Slope; Irene Lo Re Cheers (Bklyn Paper)
- Nicole Gelinas: MTA Will Have Weaker Hand in TWU Negotiations After Blizzard Missteps (Post)
- The Post Drags JSK Into Another Round of Blizzard Blame
- The Post Despises Life-Saving Traffic Enforcement Tech (and Ped Plazas and Bike Lanes)
- TSTC Sees Trouble Ahead for BRT on the Next Tappan Zee Bridge (MTR)
- On Staten Island, It’s Not Safe to Celebrate Epic Sports Victories in the Street (News, Post)
- Gristedes-Affiliated Firm Finds Strong Opposition to Wal-Mart Among Small NYC Businesses (News)
- Alex Marshall: Why Isn’t There a Place on NYC Trains and Buses for People Who Feel Sociable? (News)
Have a good Martin Luther King Jr. Day everyone. We’ll be offline the rest of today and posting regularly tomorrow.
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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