Today’s Headlines
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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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