Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EST on February 8, 2013
- DiNapoli OKs First TZB Bonds But Still Has No Idea How Cuomo Will Pay for Bridge (Journal News)
- Will De Blasio or Quinn Let Chicago, Memphis, Milwaukee, Etc. Lap NYC on Bike Lanes? (Bklyn Spoke)
- Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes, 77, Is Running for Four More Years (NYT)
- MTA to City Council: Slowing Down Trains Not an Option to Reduce Subway Deaths (NY1)
- A James Vacca Platitude and $2.25 Will Get You a Ride on the Subway (@TWU100)
- Stay Classy, TWU (DNA)
- Ben Kabak: Two of Three TWU Subway Safety Proposals Make Sense
- Seen This Movie Before? Unions Back Stadium in Flushing Meadows Park Because “Jobs” (DNA)
- Bronx Woman in Serious Condition After Driver Strikes Her at Holland and Lydig Avenues (DNA)
- Pick-Up Truck Driver Crashes Into Occupied Car Parked Outside Pratt (DNA)
- Pot, Meet Kettle: Steve Cuozzo Weighs in on Community Board “Insanity” (Post)
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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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