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8:47 AM EDT on April 19, 2013

    • RPA Poll: New Yorkers Love New York, Concerned About Climate Change (TransNat)
    • Vote! You Can Help Make Sadik-Khan the City & State Winner of the Week
    • Restaurateur Who Skipped Public Process Protests Tribeca Citi Bike Site (Post, News)
    • Gothamist Apparently Just Wondering "How Many Tourists Will Be Maimed" by Bike-Share
    • TLC Still Not Endorsing Wheelchair-Accessible Cabs (NYT); Koppell Wants Council Vote (News)
    • East Village Parent Group Will Petition DOT for Slow Zone (DNA)
    • Report Finds One-Third of Greenpoint Households Dealing With Asthma (DNA)
    • Post Holding Firm on Distaste for Organized Labor
    • Precinct That Wrote 262 Speeding Tix in 2012 Reenacts "French Connection" for Stolen iPhone (TL)
    • For the Poor and the Elderly, U.S. Streets Are Killing Fields (Atlantic)

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Brad Aaron
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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