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By Ben Fried

8:50 AM EDT on June 30, 2011

City Council Passes Budget, Apparently Without Touching Parking Meter Rates (Gotham Gazette)
Tractor-Trailer Driver Kills 13-Year-Old Girl Near Staten Island School; No Charges (News, Post)
Drunk Driver Critically Injures 6-Year-Old Jamaica Girl as She Waits for Ice Cream (News)
MTA Gets No Credit From the Daily News for Select Bus Service or Countdown Clocks
2,824 Riders on First Weekday of Paid East River Ferry Service (DNAinfo, Brooklyn Paper)
It’s Fighting-for-Scraps Season on the Brooklyn Bridge (Gothamist)
Amtrak Gets Big Federal Loan to Buy New Locomotives for Northeast Corridor (Transpo Nation)
WSJ Covers the Rezoning of Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue
NYPD Fail (Jalopnik)
We Oughta License and Insure All These Scofflaw Drivers (Brooklyn Spoke)

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Ben Fried

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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