Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:57 AM EST on November 3, 2014
- De Blasio, Bratton Quash Rumors of a Break-up After Top NYPD Exec Resigns (News)
- Someone Tell Denis Hamill That Entitled NYC Motorists Honk All the Time With a 30 MPH Limit (News)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Man in Brownsville (Gothamist)
- All MTA News Is Top-Secret Until Cuomo Runs Up the Score on Election Day (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Rail or Trail for the Rockaway Beach Line — How About Both? (News)
- It Took Two Deaths for the MTA to Ban a Bus Turn at Dangerous Ridgewood Intersection (DNA)
- Driver Strikes Man Near Marathon Course in Fort Greene (News)
- Another Victim-Blaming Leak From NYPD Turns Into a Victim-Blaming Daily News Headline
- When Streets Are for Cars Only, Even a Youth Football Game Can Turn a Block Into a Parking Lot (DNA)
- New Cap’n Transit Series: What to Do With Sunnyside Rail Yards
- Today in Incompetent Police Driving… (Animal)
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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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