Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:57 AM EDT on April 26, 2013
- Cuomo Announces Sweeping Transit Upgrades: 30 More Subway Stations Have Wi-Fi Service (NYT)
- Impassioned City Council Votes to Impose Fines for E-Bike Possession (Advance)
- Pershing Square, Outside Grand Central, to Become Permanent Pedestrian Plaza (NYT)
- Community Board 12 Endorses Washington Heights Plaza (DNA)
- Stanley Williams, 50, Killed Trying to Cross Harlem River Drive (DNA)
- Three Hurt in SoHo Curb-Jump Crash; NYPD: “No Criminality” (DNA)
- Opponents Say East 91st Street Waste Station Would Be Dangerous to Kids (DNA)
- CapNY Talks With Jerry Nadler About the Long History of the Cross-Harbor Freight Tunnel
- Post Can’t Decide What It Hates More: “Rogue” Cyclists or Traffic Etiquette Program
- Manhattan Street Vendors Protest Bike-Share Stations, Refrain From Vandalizing (Gothamist)
- NIMBYism a Time-Honored Tradition on PPW (Curbed), But Kips Bay Is a Contender (DNA)
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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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