Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EDT on July 6, 2012
- Study: NYC Firms Want to Set Up Shop Where the Livable Streets Are (Crain’s)
- Brooklyn DA Charges Maniac Killer Driver With Homicide (Gothamist)
- Time Mag Opts for Imaginative “War” Metaphor to Characterize NYC’s Bike Progress
- DOT Ped Plazas in the Works for Glendale and Ridgewood (QChron)
- MTA Changes Q41 Route to Save Riders Time. Won’t Someone Think of the Parking? (QChron)
- When Will the Bleecker Street Transfer Finally Open? (2nd Ave Sagas)
- More Police Cams Are Going Up in Public Spaces, But They Won’t Catch Speeding Drivers (Advance)
- If a Satmar Sect Ever Restores the Bedford Ave Bike Lane, Seems Like It Will Be the Aroynem (NYT)
- High Oil Prices Lead to Short-Line Freight Rail Revival Upstate (AP)
- It’s Not Your Imagination: Luxury Car Owners Drive Like Schmucks (NY Mag)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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