Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EST on January 23, 2012
- Four Dyker Heights Pedestrians Hospitalized in Two Separate Crashes Yesterday (News)
- Drivers Smash Into Each Other at Broadway and 97th, Injuring Pedestrian (DNA)
- Advantage for TWU in Contract Negotiations: MTA Can’t Threaten Thousands of Layoffs (NYT)
- Now’s Your Chance to Weigh in on the Future of Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue (Patch)
- Felix Salmon: 2,000 New Cabs Could Pop the Taxi Medallion Bubble
- Christie and Cuomo Team Up to Keep Driving Cheap for Staten Islanders (Post)
- MTA Rebuffs Council Member’s Offer to Fund Direct Shuttle Buses While 7 Service Is Out (Post)
- Parking Obsessed City Council Tops MTR‘s List of Last Week’s Losers
- Cap’n Transit: Make Navy Street a Real Street, Not a Stroad (and Give to Streetsblog)
- One More Reason Marty Markowitz Should Stop Parking on Borough Hall Plaza (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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