Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:58 AM EDT on October 4, 2013
- Joe Lhota Isn’t Closing the Gap on Bill de Blasio (NYT, News)
- Looks Like Bill Bratton Would Take the Police Commissioner Job If de Blasio Asks (News)
- Brooklyn DA Hynes Lost the Dem Primary, So He’ll Run as a Republican (Post, NYT)
- Will 125th Street Select Bus Service Make a Comeback? (CapNY)
- Nostrand/Rogers SBS Set to Start Service Next Month (NY1)
- MTA May Buy Articulated Subway Trains — in a Decade or So (2nd Ave Sagas)
- NYPD Has Seized 1,440 Dirt Bikes, Quads, and Illegal Motorcycles This Year (Gothamist)
- To Make Rego Park Mall Mixed-Use, Developer Also Has to Add a Bunch of Parking (QChron)
- Mysterious Whisper Campaign About Cuts to the Q101 Bus Not True, Says MTA (QChron)
- Who Needs a Bridge When You’ve Got a Bike Boat? (WNYC, Gothamist)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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