Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:50 AM EST on February 2, 2015
- Bronx Boss Heastie the Clear Frontrunner in Assembly Speaker Race (Post)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Satmar Couple in 2013 Facing a Long Sentence (News)
- Forecast: Uninterrupted MTA Service With a Chance of Sneckdowns (NYT)
- WNYC: Even in the Worst Snow, MTA Could Run Service to More Than Half the Subway System
- Where Do Green Cabs Go, and Where Don’t They? (DNA)
- Gelinas: Cuomo’s LGA AirTrain Like Building a Rooftop Pool on a Creaky 100-Year-Old House (Post)
- Danny Dromm Makes His Case for Community Board Term Limits (QChron)
- Pedestrian Seriously Injured By Bus Driver on the Bowery Friday (Gothamist)
- “Upper West Siders Love Their Parking Spaces,” Except for the 76% Who Don’t Own Cars (DNA)
- Dame Helen Mirren Rides the Subway With Class (Gothamist)
- After 13-Year Hiatus, Streetsblog Founding Editor Aaron Naparstek Returns to “Talk of the Town” (NYer)
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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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