Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:52 AM EST on January 26, 2015
- Cuomo Plays Three Card Monte With MTA Operating Funds in Draft Budget (MTR)
- Five Dems Will Lead Assembly as Shelly “Steps Back” But Doesn’t Resign (NYT, CapNY)
- UK Poised to Incorporate Cycling Into National Transportation Policy in a Big Way (Times of London)
- DNA Reviews the History of Rail Links to LaGuardia That Never Happened
- $128M in FreshDirect Subsidies Looking Like a Worse Bet Every Day (News)
- Queens CB 6 District Manager Hopes DOT Overhauls Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills, Too (QChron)
- DOT Wants to Convert Bogart Street in North Brooklyn to One-Way Flow (Bklyn Paper)
- QueensWay or Rail for Rockaway Beach Branch? Joe Addabbo Says, “Neither” (QChron)
- Driver Critically Injures Pedestrian Near Macy’s (DNA)
- Get Your Cameras Ready for Mega-Sneckdowns (NYT)
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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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