Today’s Headlines
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Brad Aaron
8:53 AM EDT on April 16, 2013
- Bike-Share: Dailies Play It Straight, Mostly (NYT, Post, News, WSJ)
- Vacca and Liu Issue Scare Statements (AMNY); CapNY Critiques Presser
- More Signed Up for Citi Bike Yesterday Than Pre-Rollout CaBi Saw in a Month (TransNat)
- Advance Bummed That Staten Island Not Mentioned in Expansion Plans
- Pedestrian Kaman Brummond, 26, Killed in Queens; Driver Taken Into Custody (DNA, AP)
- Advance: Bloomberg’s Jersey 7 Plan Going Nowhere, and Disrespects SI
- 2nd Ave Sagas: 7 to Secaucus the “Idea That Just Won’t Die”
- Has Cuomo Given Up on Ethics Reform? (NYT)
- See It While You Can: Jeff Speck’s Car-Free Broadway Column Reappears in the Daily News
- When Sightings Like This Are No Longer a Curiosity, NYC Has Won (NYT)
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Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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