Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:52 AM EDT on June 11, 2012
- Widower of Clara Heyworth Sues NYPD for Bungling Crash Investigation (NYT)
- Gridlock Sam’s Road Pricing Plan Has Staten Island’s Attention (Advance 1, 2)
- More About the City’s Rejection of the Sheridan Expressway Teardown (News)
- Next Thing You Know, Steve Cuozzo Will Say the Times Square Ped Plazas Were His Idea (Post)
- Ditmas Park Residents Organize for Bike Lanes; Will CB 14 Listen? (Bklyn Paper)
- Manhattan’s First 20 MPH Slow Zone Coming to Inwood (Transpo Nation)
- Pregnant Woman Hit By Taxi Left Idling By Cabbie (Post)
- Don’t Even Try to Make Sense of This Post Story on Bike-Car Crashes
- Why South Williamsburg Is a Bike-Share Desert (WSJ)
- Related: Satmar Yeshivas Ban Biking to School (Post)
- Giants Offensive Lineman Busted for Driving With Twice the Legal Alcohol Limit (News, Post)
- In Queens, No One Can Snap a Picture of You Riding the Bike Lane You Tried to Kill (DNA)
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Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.
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