Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:59 AM EDT on August 15, 2012
- Q Poll: Quinn Leads Among Democratic Mayoral Contenders (Post)
- Bay Ridge Curb Hogs Go Berserk Over Plan to Keep School Kids Out of Traffic (Bklyn Paper)
- DOT to Narrow Lane Widths on Deadly Stretch of Broadway in Riverdale (R’dale Press)
- In Washington Heights, Off-Duty NYPD Detective Arrested for DWI, Assault, Resisting Arrest, Etc. (DNA)
- Motorcyclist Dies After Crashing Into Tree in South Bronx (DNA)
- Life Returns to the Bronx River, and Its Waterfront (NY1)
- The Times Has a Thorough Explanation of Changes to City Street Signage
- Prediction: Raising an Arm Will Turn Out to Be the Most Efficient Way to Summon a NYC Taxi (Capital)
- Does Curtis Sliwa Realize Kids Can’t Barricade Streets to Play Stickball? (NY1)
- At Last: Cy Vance and Chris Quinn Team Up to Announce Action Against — Um, Wait … (Capital, NYT)
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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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