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By
Ben Fried
9:21 AM EDT on August 31, 2012
- Assembly Dems Rally Round Silver (NYT)
- You Can’t Vote for Brooklyn’s Next Dem Boss, But You Can Get to Know the Contenders (Bklyn Paper)
- Samuelsen Airs Conflict With MTA Over One Person Train Operation in HuffPo (via 2nd Ave Sagas)
- Positive Press for Staten Island SBS in the Post
- DOT to Slim Down Intersection to Prevent Wrong-Way Driving on 39th Street in Sunnyside (QChron)
- MTA Expands Its Grand Experiment in Subway Litter Prevention (Post, NY1)
- How “Pacific Street” Got Dropped From Brooklyn’s Biggest Subway Hub (AYR)
- Bike-Share Is Coming to Bridgeport (MTR)
- An Economic Theory of Bike Crime (Priceonomics)
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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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