Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:49 AM EDT on May 21, 2014
- Number of Manhattan Gas Stations Has Dropped 35 Percent in 10 Years (WNYC)
- NYPD Doles Out More Than 1,000 Tickets at Single Elmhurst Intersection in Five Days (DNA)
- Non-Binding Federal Mediator Sides With LIRR Unions Over MTA (WNYC)
- MTA Inspector General Finds “Rampant Nepotism” at NYC Transit’s Security Division (News)
- Will Big Box Development Siphon Customers From Throggs Neck’s Main Street Merchants? (BxTimes)
- Taxi Mogul Complains About Revolving Door Between TLC and Uber (Capital)
- Seven Injured in Three-Car Crash in Meiers Corner, Staten Island (DNA)
- Victim of Astoria Sidewalk Driving Maniac: “Everything Hurts Right Now” (Post)
- How Not to Use the 9th Street Bike Lane (FiPS)
- Ray Ploshansky Is the Aaron Naparstek of “Girls” (DNA)
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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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