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By Ben Fried

8:59 AM EDT on October 17, 2012

Uber Yanks Its Taxi Hailing App From NYC (The Verge, Yglesias, NYT)
Sarah Goodyear: We’re All Complicit in the Way Delivery Cyclists Ride (Atlantic Cities)
Post Readers Want to Keep the Monthly Fare as Low as Possible
North Brooklyn Residents on the Hunt for Funds to Park-ify One Block of Union Ave (DNA)
DOT Shows Plan for Safer Lefferts Boulevard to Cranky Community Board 10 (QChron)
LIRR Ridership to Atlantic Terminal Quadruples for Streisand Show (TransNat)
Top Problems for Barclays Neighbors: Idling, Double Parking, Errant Trucks (AYR, Post)
Delivery Trucks Collide on BQE, Killing One (Post)
Can Stefanie Gray Hit All 468 Subway Stations in Record Time? (CapNY)
Richard Lipsky and Carl Kruger Are Together Again in Cushy Otisville State Prison (Crain’s)

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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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