Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EST on January 3, 2013
- House Vote on Billions for Sandy Relief Pushed to the 15th (NYT, News)
- Joe Lhota Makes the Rounds With GOP Bigs (WSJ, News)
- Five Reasons Why Lhota Won’t Win (C&S)
- Driver’s Defense For Mowing Down New Year’s Eve Crowd: He Was Trying to Escape “Mob” (Post, News)
- Cut in 2010, Weekend Service on the B24 Coming Back This Sunday (DNA)
- Felix Salmon on What the Avis Acquisition Means for Zipcar
- What to Do If Transit Isn’t Convenient — The Cap’n Transit Flowchart
- Looks Like NYC’s Lux Auto Row Won’t Be Getting Priced Out of the West Side (WSJ)
- A Day in the Life of a Data-Driven NYC Pothole Repair Crew (Gothamist)
- Is There a 150-Year-Old Locomotive Buried Under Atlantic Avenue? (Bklyn Paper)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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