Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EST on December 6, 2011
- Rock Center JSK Profile: The Idea of Reclaiming Cities From Cars Hits Prime Time
- NYPD Exoneration of Hit-and-Run Killer Contradicts Their Own Crash Report (Bklyn Paper)
- Cap’n Transit: The Tappan Zee Is “Unsafe” Because NY State Squeezed on Another Lane
- 78th Pct Hands Out More Tix to Prospect Park Cyclists Than Speeding Tix (Bklyn Spoke)
- Meanwhile, a Driver Seriously Injured a Cyclist on the Prospect Park Loop (Brooklynian)
- Planner: Extending 7 Train to Hoboken, Not Secaucus, Is the Way to Go (Crain’s)
- Daily News Dismisses Victims Who Died on McGuinness Blvd as “Hipsters”
- “Bicyclists-as-Gentrifiers Trope More Perception Than Reality” (Salon)
- Daily News Reader Calls Out Bike-Hating Cartoonist Bill Bramhall
- MTA Hasn’t Opened Real-Time Train Arrival Data for Developers (Transpo Nation)
- 1% Carnage: Eight-Ferrari Pile-up on Japanese Highway (Bloomberg)
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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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