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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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