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  • 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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