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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)

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Ben Fried

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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