Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
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 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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