Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:50 AM EDT on May 24, 2012
- Lower East Side Seward Park Development Approved by Community Board 3 (Crain’s)
- Bike-Share NIMFYs Get Their Say in the Brooklyn Paper
- James Vacca and Peter Koo Push Cleanliness Ratings for Subway Stations … (DNA, WNYC)
- … Opening Themselves to Ridicule From Pundits and Straphangers (Second Ave Sagas, WSJ)
- Backers Want to Convert Astoria Park Olympic Pool Into Outdoor Performance Space (WSJ)
- McKean Recovering After Upper West Side Crash; Witness Describes “Hurtling” Vehicle (Post, DNA)
- Off-Duty Cop Charged With DWI and Leaving Scene of Astoria Collision (DNA)
- Sunnyside, Staten Island: DOT Plans Road Diet for Street Plagued by Speeding Drivers (DNA)
- CT Gov Malloy, Business and Labor Leaders Break Ground on Major Busway Project (MTR)
- Climate Change Study Predicts Increase in Urban Heat Deaths (Transpo Nation)
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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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