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By Ben Fried

8:57 AM EDT on July 10, 2012

Bloomberg Stands Behind Vanderbilt Ave Plaza (Post)
…While Psycho Steve Cuozzo Froths at the Mouth (Post)
Spike Lee Misses Old School Street Games, Pleads for Nets Fans to Take the Train (NY Mag)
Stickball Lives on in East Harlem, at Least on Sundays (NYT)
Amtrak Updates NEC High-Speed Rail “Vision” With Lower Costs, More Riders, and Pics (TransNat)
Battery Park City Bike-Share NIMBY: Station Site Dangerous “Because You’ve Got All the Kids” (TriTrib)
Daily News Hands a Megaphone to Q41 Bus NIMBYs
Driverless Subways: If Paris and Glasgow Can Do It, Why Can’t NYC? (2nd Ave Sagas)
Lhota and Samuelsen Team Up With Daily News to Honor Transit Workers
Good Samaritan Wants to Know: Is This Your Bike? (News)

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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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