Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EST on February 1, 2011
- Cuomo’s Budget Is Coming Out Today — Brace Yourselves, Transit Riders (News)
- What’s the Best Way to Make Streets Safer Near PS 49 in Middle Village? (News)
- Woman Who Fatally Doored Jasmine Herron Indicted for Leaving the Scene (Post)
- Eric Ulrich Wants to See Queens’ Worksman Cycles Build NYC Bike-Share Bikes (Crain’s)
- Open Source Project May Be the Ticket for Cost Effective Real-Time MTA Bus Tracking (2nd Ave Sagas)
- MTA Figuring Out If It Can Afford Life-Saving Sliding Doors for Subway Platforms (News)
- How Many People Will Drive to the Refurbished Loew’s Movie Palace in Flatbush? (Gothamist)
- City Shoos Illegal Livery Cars Away From Meatpacking District (NY1)
- Streets and Public Spaces, Not Social Media, Are Underpinning Egypt’s Uprising (Grist)
- Brooklyn Spoke Welcomes New York Cycle Chic
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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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