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9:00 AM EDT on June 7, 2012

    • Cab Plan Injunction Could Cost City $1 Billion (Capital, News)
    • Lhota Says Pension and Health Care Costs 100 Percent to Blame for Fare Hikes ... (News)
    • ... And Is Echoed by Daily News Editorial Writers, Letting Albany Deadbeats Off the Hook
    • Cuomo Appoints Campaign Donor to Port Authority Board (Transpo Nation)
    • Lower East Side Underground Park Approved by Community Board 3 Committee (Lo-Down, DNA)
    • Expanded Williamsburg Walks Begins This Saturday (Bklyn Paper)
    • Two Astoria Business Owners Speak Out Against Newtown Avenue Ped Plaza (DNA)
    • Bronx Woman Charged With Manslaughter for Intentionally Running Over Teen Boyfriend (DNA, News)
    • Car-Part Thieves Fleeing New Rochelle Cops Crash in the Bronx; 1 Dead (WABC)
    • Neistat Copycat Uses Ladder to Lift Bike (DNA)

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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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