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By
Ben Fried
9:02 AM EST on December 19, 2011
- Trucker Hits and Kills 17-Year-Old Cyclist in Harlem; NYPD: “No Criminality” (DNA)
- Meanwhile, East Harlem Calorie Merchants Keep Up Their Anti-Bike Lane Media Tour (NY1)
- Drunk Driver Mows Down Stuyvesant Senior One Block From Gravesend Home (News)
- Bloomberg on Cuomo’s Transit Cut: “Somebody Else Is Going to Have to Pay” (CapNY)
- One More Reason Albany Needs to Get Serious About Congestion Pricing (Bklyn Paper)
- City to Add Bus Shelters for B61 Riders (Bklyn Paper)
- State DOT Picks Consultants to Figure Out How to Pay for a New Tappan Zee (Times Union)
- Tribeca Neighbors Want to Keep Their Temporary Pedestrian Plaza (DNA)
- Midwestern Editorial Board Far More Progressive on Bike Policy Than NYC’s Transpo Chair (KC Star)
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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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