Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EST on December 22, 2011
- MTA Board Approves 2012 Budget Held Together With Scotch Tape (NYT)
- Board Members Vote 6-4 Not to Restore $20 Million in Service (WNYC)
- Ray Kelly: Fix This! Another Cabbie Jumps Curb and Hurts People, Ticketed for Worn-Out Tires (Post)
- Queens Group Envisions Decommissioned Elevated LIRR Branch as a Greenway (News)
- Cuomo Makes It Official and Signs Borough Taxi Bill Into Law (NY1)
- Jose Peralta Misses Chance to Hear How Speeding Traffic Terrorizes His Constituents (QChron)
- Markowitz Wishes “Friends of Automobiles” Ran NYC DOT (AYR)
- Can You Add a Subway Stop to the Roosevelt Island Science Campus? (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Get Ready for State Senator Lew Fidler (NYT)
- Despite Guilty Plea, Kruger Won’t Have to Forfeit His Bentley (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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