Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:51 AM EDT on August 18, 2011
- Cuomo and Christie Talk Inside the Huddle About How to Fund Port Authority (Post)
- Decision PPW: How They Covered It on TV (NY1, CBS2, NBC)
- Jim Walden to Park Slope: “This Is Just the First Battle in a Longer War” (Bklyn Paper)
- Bike Lane Haters at the News Don’t Belong to Truth-Telling Community; Post Files Reality-Based Report
- M42 Bus Driver Runs Over Rollerblader at West Side Greenway by 43rd Street (Gothamist, Post)
- Replace “Port Authority” With “MTA” and New DiNapoli Report Is Deja Vu All Over Again (News, DNAinfo)
- Researchers Find Link Between Maternal Obesity and Childhood Asthma (Well)
- Roosevelt Island Needs a Better Surface for Cyclists on the Bridge Path to Queens (RIer)
- With Fee Hike for City Parking Lot Off the Table, Brighton Beach Rep Rests Easy About Road Rage (News)
- Excellent Satire of Enforcement Hysteria Over Minor Bike/Ped Transgressions (News)
- Damned Bike Lanes (NYT)
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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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