Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EST on February 28, 2011
- Lazy, Dishonest Post Writers Can’t Be Bothered to Check Facts or Tell the Truth About 34th Street
- Cap’n Transit: Fight for the 34th Street Transitway
- Transit Know-Nothing Andrea Peyser Spews More Hate at JSK and the Transitway
- Bike Registration Idiocy Spreads to Albany: DenDekker Wants Annual Fee for Every Bike in NY State (Post)
- LaHood: Facebook and Twitter Don’t Belong on the Dashboard (NYT)
- Afghanistan Veteran Killed By Driver After Leaving His Birthday Party in Smithtown (News)
- One Dead, Three Injured After Driver Slams Into Utility Pole Off the Belt Parkway (News)
- Passenger Hijacks Cab, Drives Like Maniac, Crashes Into Pole at Union Square (News, NYT)
- Gotham Gazette Forgot to Interview Council Members Who Support Safe Streets for Biking
- Pete Donohue Scorns MTA’s Legal Challenge to TWU Raises (News)
- Steve “The Cuozz” Cuozzo Just Plain Hates People
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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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