Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:56 AM EDT on May 15, 2012
- ESDC Seeks to Appeal Ruling That It Illegally Skipped Atlantic Yards Environmental Review (Crain’s)
- Pedro Espada Found Guilty of Stealing Hundreds of Thousands From Health Non-Profit (NYT)
- Cuomo Man Pat Foye Preaches Mega-Project Accountability, Presumably Keeps Straight Face (Capital)
- Sunnyside Pedestrian Slain by Alleged DWI Livery Driver Identified as Gabriel Hernandez (Post)
- NJ Transpo Commissioner Suggests Routing NJ Transit Buses to the East Side (Capital)
- New Jersey Researchers Find the Poor More Likely to Be Hit by Drivers (WNYC)
- Dispatchers Added to Improve Coordination Between Staten Island Ferry and MTA Buses (Advance)
- Ikea Adds Weekend Water Taxi Stop at East 35th Street (DNA)
- NY1 Queens Series Looks Back at 20 Years of Carnage on the Boulevard of Death
- Two Killed When Motorcycle Collides With Bus in Jackson Heights (News, DNA)
- Gas Drilling Promises to Make Upstate Roads Even More Dangerous (NYT)
- Apogee of New York City Traffic Enforcement Traced to 1896 (Gothamist)
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Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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