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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

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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