Today’s Headlines
Streetsblog will be offline the rest of President's Day and publishing regularly tomorrow.
By
Ben Fried
8:58 AM EST on February 18, 2013
- From the Mealy-Mouthed to the Moronic, Mayoral Hopefuls Give Bike Lane Quotes to the Bklyn Paper
- Hit-and-Run Driver Seriously Injured Teenager in Bay Ridge Friday Night (Gothamist)
- A Handful of Votes Could Swing Tuesday’s Special City Council Election in SE Queens (News)
- NYPD’s Cyclist Ticketing Frenzy of 2011 Eased Up in 2012 (Post)
- Yellow School Buses Will Hit the Streets on Wednesday (WSJ, DNA)
- CB 5 Gets an Early Look at Pedestrian Improvements for Penn Station (DNA)
- MTA Awards $258M Contract for Second Avenue Subway’s 72nd Street Station (DNA)
- DNAinfo: A Parking Space for Crown Heights’ Car-Free Majority Symbolizes “Mustachioed Menace”
- Behind the Scenes: How Barclays Center Players Avoid the Sidewalk (Post)
- Should We Build a Soccer Stadium By the Flushing River? (Cap’n Transit)
- Mardi Gras: The Ultimate Open Streets Event (Next City)
Streetsblog will be offline the rest of President’s Day and publishing regularly tomorrow.
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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