Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:54 AM EDT on September 12, 2013
- Top Dems Urge Thompson to Concede (NYT, News)
- Christie Backs Billion Dollar PATH Extension to Newark Airport (Crain’s)
- Bloomberg and JSK Talk Street Redesigns With Fast Company
- What Tri-State Wants to Hear From Mayoral Candidates Before the General (MTR)
- Planning Commission Approves Gigantic Ferris Wheel/Parking Complex for SI (Observer, CBS)
- StreetsPAC-Backed Kirsten John Foy Trails By 94 Votes With Absentee, Paper Ballots Uncounted (DNA)
- Driver Seriously Injures Four People Outside Maspeth School This Morning (DNA)
- MTA Bus Driver Strikes Woman in West Harlem (DNA)
- MTA Starts Running More Q103 Buses on the Western Queens Waterfront This Week (DNA)
- Who Says Citi Bikes Are Clunky? (Animal)
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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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