Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:58 AM EDT on June 13, 2012
- Either Ray Kelly Has No Idea How NYPD Handles Traffic Crashes, or He Lies (Transpo Nation)
- Woman Killed By Truck Driver While Biking in Crown Heights (Gothamist, Post, CHinfo)
- No Jail for Texting Driver Who Killed Brooklyn Delivery Man Tian Sheng Lin (City Room)
- Trucker Who Killed Roxana Buta and Fled Scene Identified — NO CHARGES FILED YET (NBC)
- Dozens of Council Members Crafting Bill to Establish Independent Oversight of NYPD (NYT)
- Rockland Police Looking Into Phone Records of Driver Who Killed Cyclist on 9-W (Cyclists Int’l)
- A Slice of Paramus Is Coming to the Bronx (NYT)
- …and Queens (News)
- Cabbies Want to See a Few More Taxi Fare Hikes on Top of What’s on the Table (Post)
- Port Authority Cops Shelling Out Steep Fines to GWB Carpoolers (WSJ)
- Cap’n Transit: Can the MTA Ever Think Entrepreneurially About Adding Bus Routes?
- Sneak Peek of the Summer Streets 2012 Zip Line Over at Gothamist
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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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