Today’s Headlines
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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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