Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EDT on March 26, 2013
- Jeffries, Meeks, and Goldfeder Seeking Sandy Recovery Funds to Study Rockaway Beach Rail (DNA)
- The Times Runs an Image Rehab Piece on Deadly Speeder Julio Acevedo
- Too Many Parents Are Driving Their Kids to PS 63 in Ozone Park (QChron)
- Stop Signs Safer Than Traffic Lights for Boerum Hill Streets? (Bklyn Paper)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Strikes Man in Jackson Heights Crosswalk (Post)
- Ditmas Park Still Waiting for Mathieu Eugene to Help Tame Dangerous Coney Island Ave (DP Corner)
- After Police Use Cruiser With Deadly Force to Stop Man on Dirt Bike, Victim’s Mother Sues NYPD (AP)
- Meet the Surveyor Who Laid Out the Manhattan Grid (Leonard Lopate)
- People’s Bank United Knows: Bikes Sell (Bklyn Spoke)
- Cousin Matthew Loves the Subway (Gothamist)
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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