Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:58 AM EDT on July 3, 2014
- News: Citi Bike Deal Calls for Higher Member Fees, Bigger System, REQX Control of Station Sitings
- Car Thief Hits Mother and Two Kids in Flatlands, Killing 12-Year-Old (NYT, News, WABC, Post)
- Jacqueline Haeflinger, 58, Killed Trying to Save Her Dog From DSNY Truck (NYT, News, WABC)
- Wednesday Afternoon Storm Floods Streets, Collapses Wall Under Brooklyn Bridge (News, Post)
- Senate Finance Chair DeFrancisco, Who Holds Key TZB Vote, Needs Convincing on Financing (CapTon)
- Crain’s Rags on City Council, and Your Grandma, for Bus Countdown Clocks
- Manhattan Judge Sues City for Bus Lane Ticket (News); Post Slams “de Blasio’s New Cams”
- BrooklynSpoke on Self-Styled Cam Watchdog: “Put Guys Like This on Every Corner” (@gregmocker 1, 2)
- No Freedom for Child’s Play at 9/11 Memorial Park (New Yorker)
- A Traffic Crime So Horrible the Precinct CO Was Summoned to the Scene, and the Times Is On It
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Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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