Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:49 AM EDT on April 23, 2014
- City Council Wants to Hire 1,000 Cops to Reduce Traffic Violence and Improve Police Tactics (Post)
- The First Public Meeting for Queens’ First Select Bus Service Route Is Tonight (NY1)
- More on the McGuinness Blvd 25 MPH Zone in the Brooklyn Paper
- NYPD Seeking Suspect in Hit-and-Run Killing of Cyclist Angel Torres (Gothamist)
- Driver Who Raced Around Manhattan Jailed for Driving Again (Post)
- Potential MTA-LIRR Union Contract Modeled on TWU Deal (WNYC)
- News: No More Port Authority Subsidies for Larry Silverstein
- What’s Taking So Long to Fix the India Street Ferry Pier? (News)
- Good Signs for Smart Growth in Suffolk County Capital Plan (MTR)
- Vice: “Cars Should Be Safe, Legal, and Rare”
- Cops on Bikes Prevent #myNYPD Campaign From Totally Backfiring (@HildaBikes)
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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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