Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EST on December 2, 2011
- TA’s Noah Budnick Discusses NYPD Failure to Uphold Traffic Laws on Inside City Hall
- 22-Year-Old Motorcyclist Kills Pedestrian in Midtown; No Charges Filed (AP)
- NYPD Happy to Step Up Enforcement in Response to Crashes, If It Involves Ticketing Bikes (Bklyn Paper)
- More Coverage of NYC’s Slowest Buses (NY1, Transpo Nation, DNAinfo, News)
- Stringer Reportedly Eying a 2013 Run for Comptroller Instead of Mayor (Post)
- Pols Never Let a Chance to Play the MTA Blame Game Go to Waste (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Williamsburg Biz Owners Know the Value of Subway Access (News)
- Smart Growth Advocates Like What They See So Far From Cuomo’s Economic Dev Councils (MTR)
- Happy Birthday, Second Avenue Sagas. Five More Years!
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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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