Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EDT on October 2, 2012
- NYT: The Bloomberg of 2008 Wouldn’t Dump a Stadium on Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
- Cyclist Killed By Hit-and-Run Driver Yesterday Was Terence Connor, 26 (Gothamist)
- Astoria’s Kickshaw Cookery Battling for a Bike Corral on Broadway (News)
- A Metro-North Stop in Queens — Would It Work? (News)
- Jackson Heights Next in Line for DOT’s Park Smart Program to Rationalize Meter Prices (DNA)
- MTA’s Dey Street Concourse Is Finished But Won’t Open Until WTC Towers Are Occupied (News)
- Photos From the 7 Train Extension (TransNat)
- One Day a Year, Stickball Returns to the Streets of Bay Ridge (Bklyn Paper)
- What Makes Fifth Avenue a Great Pedestrian Street? (Cap’n Transit)
- For the Holidays, China Gets a Taste of What the East River Bridges Are Like All Year (Telegraph)
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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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