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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

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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