Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:54 AM EDT on October 28, 2013
- De Blasio Maintains 45 Point Lead in Times/Siena Poll (NYT)
- Times Magazine Piece Details How the Subways Survived Sandy …
- … And Cuomo Marks Anniversary By Giving Away Train Rides (NYT, WNYC)
- De Blasio Says Campaign Donations Won’t Guide His Policy on Cabs, Whatever That Is (WNYC, CapNY)
- New Staten Island NYPD Borough Commander: Traffic Enforcement Will Be a Priority (Advance)
- No Charges: UES Pedestrian Critically Hurt by TEA (Post); W’burg Senior Hit by School Bus Driver (DNA)
- Ozone Park Ped Plaza to Open This Week, With Backing From Nydia Velazquez and Eric Ulrich (TL)
- Sources Tell CapNY Inez Dickens Is Not a Contender for Council Speaker
- Connecticut Electeds and Business Folk Want Faster Trains to NYC (Post Star)
- Get On the Omnibus: The ABCs of City Planning Circa 1937, via Tri-State
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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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