Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EDT on November 1, 2011
- Cops: We Weren’t the Only Placard Holders Involved in Ticket Fixing (News)
- NYT: Ray Kelly Isn’t Doing Enough to Root Out NYPD Corruption
- Impending Debut of Nets Arena Spurs “Serious Look” at Residential Parking Permits (Post)
- First Built-Out Section of Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Slated for West Street in Greenpoint (Bklyn Paper)
- De Blasio Does Something Useful and Asks EDC to Prove It Actually Creates Jobs (WSJ)
- Can the Cross-Bronx Be Buried? (News)
- NTSB: Curbside Bus Operators More Dangerous Than Big Bus Companies (NYT)
- With Muni Meters, Motorists Get the Parking They Pay For. What a Scam! (Patch)
- A.O. Scott Makes Gary Hustwit’s “Urbanized” Sound Like a Fantastic Movie (NYT)
- Confessions of a Former Bike Hater (Toronto Star, via @krstrois)
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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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