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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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