Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:56 AM EDT on July 5, 2012
- Barclays Center Transportation Plan Draft Prompts Plenty of Unanswered Questions (AYR)
- NYMTC Unveils Plans for Bronx Leg of Hudson River Greenway (R’dale Press)
- Informal Gothamist Survey Finds New Yorkers Are Ready to Hop on a Citi Bike
- Ben Kabak Reviews Latest Penn Station Redevelopment Proposal
- City Refuses to Say Why Chase Manhattan Plaza Has Been Fenced Off for 10 Months (NYT)
- Coney Island in Limbo as EDC-Supervised Development Plan Stalls (City Limits)
- Grandmother Recovering After Jamaica Hit-and-Run; Driver Remains at Large (News)
- Teenager Killed in East Elmhurst Motorcycle Crash (DNA)
- Post Deems Parking Ticket Complaint Worthy of Two Reporters and a Call to James Vacca
- Video: Driver Claiming to Be NYPD Threatens to Break Face of Midtown Cyclist (Gothamist)
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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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