Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:12 AM EST on February 17, 2014
- NYT Casts Vision Zero as “Somewhat Quixotic,” But Opposition Is Scant
- NYPD Cites CIS for Bratton’s Victim-Blaming Stat; Jaywalking Tickets Are Way Up (Gothamist, WPIX)
- Neighbors Demand Criminal Charges for Man Who Killed Min Lin With Front-End Loader (News)
- Grand Jury Indicts Lucian Merryweather’s Killer for Criminally Negligent Homicide (DNA)
- MTA Will Add a Stop to Nostrand SBS at Gates Ave (DNA)
- Eric Adams: “A 20 MPH Limit Is Worth Looking At” (Bklyn Paper)
- MTA’s Interactive Touchscreens Are Here (WNYC)
- Glendale Can’t Wait for New Plaza, Coming in 2015 (QChron)
- Current Urban Design Issues in Howard Beach (QChron)
- Make Love, Not Carnage (WNYC)
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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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