Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:01 AM EST on December 21, 2011
- Cuomo OKs Expanding Legal Street Hails With New Class of Cabs (NYT, 2nd Ave Sagas, News 1, 2)
- MTA Board: Budget’s Too Tight to Restore Any 2010 Service Cuts (NY1)
- Moody’s Doubts Cuomo Will Find the Money to Make Up for His MTA Funding Cut (Transpo Nation)
- Truck Driver Hits and Kills 73-Year-Old Man in Gramercy; NYPD: “No Criminality” (DNA)
- Brooklyn Paper Picks Up the Story of NYPD’s Botched Investigation Into Mathieu Lefevre’s Death
- Report: NYC Region Pays 72 Percent of NY State Taxes, Receives 58 Percent of Albany Spending (Lohud)
- Will Cornell’s Roosevelt Island Campus Be an Urban Place or Corbusian Crap? (Cap’n Transit)
- Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Moment of Schadenfreude (NYT, Post, News, WSJ)
- …And Then There Was One Amigo (News)
- Out With Kruger, in With Lew? (Post)
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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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