Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:56 AM EDT on September 8, 2014
- NYPD Might Close More Hit-and-Run Cases If NYPD Investigated Hit-and-Runs (Post)
- 88-Year-Old Motorist Kills Bed-Stuy Pedestrian; Post Takes Care to Report What Driver Wore
- Driver Strikes Senior on West End Avenue; Victim Critical; “No Criminality” (Gothamist)
- 70th Precinct Ticketing People for Walking Through Prospect Park at Night (DP Corner)
- Sandy-Shuttered R Train East River Tunnel Might Reopen Ahead of Schedule (Bklyn Paper)
- The Post Believes Bedbugs Are a Greater Threat to NYC Transit Than Climate Change
- Lower East Side BID Presents Orchard Street Pedestrianization Plan to CB 3 (DNA)
- Third High Line Section, Opening This Month, Will Give Visitors a Car-Free 22-Block Walk (DNA)
- Taxi Service Exclusively for Women to Launch in NYC (NYT)
- Crain’s Op-Ed Calls for Filling in and Developing the Harlem River
- Someone Please Ask Chuck Schumer How Many People Drivers Have Killed Since December (Post)
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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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