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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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