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By Ben Fried

8:56 AM EDT on August 2, 2011

Daily News Nails Liu and DiNapoli for Taking Potshots at the MTA While Transit Teeters
The More You Know About Kira Goddard’s Death, the More Senseless It Seems (News, WSJ)
The Only Attention Goddard’s Mourners Got From Local Pols Was a Drive-By Beep (News)
Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop: Chris Ward’s Tenuous Relationship With Andrew Cuomo (Cap NY)
Whitestone Moms Lead Fight Against One-Way Conversion Near PS193 (News)
Peter Koo Wants Flushing to Be a Great Transit Destination, Yet He Also Wants Lots of Parking (Crain’s)
What Nancy Gruskin’s 5-to-Ride Campaign Has Been Up To (Downtown Express)
Brooklyn Chef Thrown in Holding Cell for Riding Trike on Sidewalk (Gothamist)
DNAinfo Reports on Yesterday’s Fulton Street Transit Center Construction Milestone
Atlantic Yards Traffic Plan: Motorists’ Early Reaction (NY1)
If Larry Littlefield Wrote the Classifieds… (Room 8)

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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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