Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:17 AM EDT on April 15, 2011
- NYPD Parking Ticket Fixing Scandal Is Great News for Bronx Criminals (News)
- Parking-Obsessed LIC Locals Can’t Stand to Part With Half-Empty Garage By Transit Hub (Queens Chron)
- RPA Overseeing Bi-State TOD Effort (WSJ)
- NYPD Bike Crackdown Reaches a New Low (Post)
- Attention NYC’s Bike Lane Crank Minority: Maybe a French Minister Has Les Mots Justes for You (NYT)
- 1010 WINS Talks to the Good Guys About PPW CB6 Vote And Still Botches the Story
- Bay Ridge Politicos Get MTA to Reinstitute Two Express Bus Routes (Bklyn Eagle)
- How Capitol Hill’s Bus Safety Push Could Make Us All Less Safe (Cap’n Transit)
- Flatbush Street Fairs Not Happening This Year (Bklyn Paper)
- The Real Enemy Isn’t on Two Wheels (Colbert Report)
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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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