Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EDT on August 25, 2014
- Elderly Man Bloodied By Cops During Jaywalking Stop Sues City for $5M (WSJ, News)
- Krugman: The Rent Is Too Damn High (NYT)
- Two-Car Crash Injures Five Pedestrians on Harlem Sidewalk (NBC)
- Five Family Members Dead in Single-Car Crash Off Southern State Parkway (Post, NYT)
- Eric Adams: To Keep Seniors Safe on Brooklyn Streets, Add More Crossing Guards (Bklyn Paper)
- Can You Trust the Post to Accurately Cover Citi Bike’s Repair Backlog?
- It’s Easier for Citi Bike to Rebalance With Bike Trailers Than to Send Trucks Into Midtown Traffic (Boogie)
- Parks Dept Driver Strikes Cyclist in Queens — We Know This Since a Puppy Was Involved (DNA, FDNY)
- What’s a Good Way to Get the TriBoro Rx Subway Line Started? (Cap’n Transit, 2nd Ave Sagas)
- “Facelift” for GWB Bus Station Begins Today (CBS)
- G Train Riders Bemoan Return of G Train (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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