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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

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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