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8:57 AM EDT on August 29, 2014

    • Man Who Used Car As Weapon in Bronx Hit-and-Run Faces Attempted Murder Charges (DNA)
    • Driver Injures Three Women, One Critically, Beneath FDR Downtown (Gothamist, DNA)
    • Driver Smashes Jeep Into Ozone Park Pizzeria (Forum)
    • State, Brookfield Point Fingers Over Downtown Greenway Closure Begun in 2007 (Downtown Express)
    • Without Work Rule Reform, LIRR Union Deal Is Nothing to Celebrate (PlaNYourCity)
    • Ticketed for Driving in the Bus Lane Multiple Times? It's OK: City Will Cancel All But One (Bklyn Paper)
    • Citi Bike Working With Cornell Data Scientist to Improve Rebalancing (CityLab)
    • Precinct Begins Towing Illegally-Parked Big Rigs in Marine Park and Mill Basin (Bklyn Daily)
    • City Begins Work to Replace Walkway Linking Hamilton Beach With Train Station (Forum)
    • Sheepshead Bay Leaders Want TLC to Ticket Illegally-Parked Cabbies at Subway Station (Bklyn Daily)
    • "He Was Tired Of Walking, So He Stole a Car" (Advance)

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Stephen Miller
In spring 2017, Stephen wrote for Streetsblog USA, covering the livable streets movement and transportation policy developments around the nation. From August 2012 to October 2015, he was a reporter for Streetsblog NYC, covering livable streets and transportation issues in the city and the region. After joining Streetsblog, he covered the tail end of the Bloomberg administration and the launch of Citi Bike. Since then, he covered mayoral elections, the de Blasio administration's ongoing Vision Zero campaign, and New York City's ever-evolving street safety and livable streets movements.

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