Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:25 AM EST on December 19, 2014
- Driver Kills Denise Lippin, 56, at Bruckner Boulevard and E 138th Street (DNA)
- Fed Up With Dangerous Walks to School, Parents to Bombard 311 With Street Safety Requests (DNA)
- De Blasio Changes Course, Will Move Ahead With Taxi of Tomorrow (NYT, CapNY)
- More Coverage of TLC’s New Rules for Livery Drivers (Post)
- Ras Baraka’s Protected Bike Lane Reversal Doesn’t Speak for Everyone in Newark (MTR)
- Labor and Enviros Press City Hall to Move Faster on Climate Change and Green Transpo (CapNY)
- Behold the 86th Street Station Cavern for the 2nd Avenue Subway (2nd Ave Sagas, AMNY)
- Coming Soon to Traffic-Choked Downtown Flushing: 155 More Parking Spaces (TL)
- Red Hook Fairway Gets Year-Round Water Taxi Service (Bklyn Paper)
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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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