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8:59 AM EDT on October 24, 2013

    • NYT, Post, Metro Have Their Own Takes on de Blasio's Backsliding on Pedestrian Space
    • State DOT Reduces Spending on Bike-Ped Safety (MTR); Related: Drivers Kill Two Suffolk Peds (WNBC)
    • Cuomo Trying to "Tamp Down Expectations" on How Much Feds Will Give With TZB TIFIA Loan (TU)
    • CapNY Looks at the Long Past and Fuzzy Future of the Second Avenue Subway
    • Teamsters Balk at de Blasio's Suggestion of Replacing Horse Carriages With Cars (CapNY)
    • Turns Out There Are Better Uses for Precious Manhattan Real Estate Than Gas Pumps (NYT)
    • Staten Island Resident Calls WPIX Because Daylighting Plan Removed Parking in Front of His House
    • City Will Replace All 250,000 Street Lights With LED Fixtures by 2017 (Post)
    • Jackson Heights BID Spruces Up Triangle With Plaza Chairs (Brownstoner Queens)
    • Making It Easy: Alleged Drunk Driver Smashes Into NYPD Cruiser (News)
    • The Day NYPD Stopped Manhattan Traffic for a Cat to Cross the Street (Ephemeral NY)

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Stephen Miller
In spring 2017, Stephen wrote for Streetsblog USA, covering the livable streets movement and transportation policy developments around the nation. From August 2012 to October 2015, he was a reporter for Streetsblog NYC, covering livable streets and transportation issues in the city and the region. After joining Streetsblog, he covered the tail end of the Bloomberg administration and the launch of Citi Bike. Since then, he covered mayoral elections, the de Blasio administration's ongoing Vision Zero campaign, and New York City's ever-evolving street safety and livable streets movements.

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