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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

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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