Today’s Headlines
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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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