Today’s Headlines
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8:56 AM EST on February 10, 2014
- NY’s Weak Case Law Means Sober Drivers Face Criminal Charges in Only 5 Percent of Crashes (WSJ)
- TLC Let 14 of 16 Cabbies Involved in Recent Serious Pedestrian Crashes Remain on Road (Post)
- Hit-and-Run Truck Driver Kills Pedestrian on Atlantic Avenue in East New York (News, WNBC, WCBS)
- 19 Injured, Three Seriously, in Borough Park Ambulance-School Bus Crash (News, Post, WCBS, WABC)
- MTA Tweaks Brooklyn’s Only SBS Route: Adds Stops, Boosts Local Service on Nostrand B44 (Post)
- BP Adams and CM Gentile Want Cuomo to Extend Toll Cut to Brooklynites (News, Advance, WCBS)
- Verrazano Toll Cut Just One of Many Ways Cuomo Has Taken Straphangers for a Ride (WNYC)
- Bratton: NYPD Information Will Be “Public in as Many Different Formats as Possible” (CapNY)
- De Blasio Taps Vicki Been for HPD After Announcing Weisbrod for City Planning (News, WSJ, CapNY)
- Brookfield Doubles Proposed Plaza Space in Hudson Yards Project (DNA)
- WPIX Picks Up Sneckdown Craze, Meets East Elmhurst Neighbors Who Want Plaza on Unused Asphalt
- It’s Been a Tough Week for New Yorkers, Including the Disabled, Trying to Use Sidewalks (WNYC)
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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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