Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:57 AM EDT on March 26, 2012
- What Did State Senate Republicans Get in Exchange for Letting the MTA Borrow More Money? (AP)
- Problem for Car Makers: MTV Marketers Can’t Make Driving Less Miserable and Expensive (NYT)
- After Just Two Months, 10 Percent of S.I. Bus Riders Use MTA BusTime (TransNat)
- Two Cops Hospitalized After Livery Cab Driver Collides With Police Cruiser (Post)
- Wouldn’t It Be Great If the News Devoted This Much Space to the Thousands of Injuries on NYC Streets?
- Scandal! Crack Investigators at the Post Expose Bell-Less Central Park Bike Rental
- CB 15 Chair: Don’t Even Think of Making Southern Brooklyn Streets Safer (Sheepshead Bites)
- Meet Matt Green, Soon to Be the Only Person to Experience Every NYC Street Firsthand (NYT)
- Five Years Ago, You Never Would Have Seen This on Grand Street (Bklyn Spoke)
- Kind Streets (NYT)
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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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