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By Ben Fried

8:50 AM EDT on September 4, 2012

MTA Files Appeal of Payroll Tax Ruling With State’s Top Court (Poughkeepsie Journal)
Hoboken’s Promising Car-Share Data Competes With Curbside Entitlement in the Times
To Slow Down Drivers, Corona Students Paint Their School (DNA)
Daily News Gets Its Chance to Crow About Central Park Cyclists
Vito Lopez Succession: Meet the New Boss? (News)
Trials and Tribulations of Activating Lower Manhattan’s Privately-Owned Public Spaces (DT Express)
Why Did NYC Start Letting People Store Their Cars on the Street Overnight? (Cap’n Transit)
Cab Fares Go Up Today (NYT, Post)
LIRR Finally Making Progress on Online Ticketing (MTR)
Attention, Vignelli Subway Map Fans: September 12 You Can Geek Out With Massimo (Bklyn Paper)

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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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