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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EST on February 9, 2015
- De Blasio Orders Sideguards Installed on 200 City Garbage Trucks (News)
- Eastern Queens’ Growing Immigrant Population Needs Better Transit (YIMBY)
- WNYC Team Reflects on a Year of Loss Caused By Traffic Violence
- Building Over Sunnyside Yards — The Political and Logistical Quagmire (Crain’s)
- EDC Grant Will Boost Freight Rail Capacity at Hunts Point Market (DNA)
- Can Something Good Be Salvaged From de Blasio’s Ferry Proposal? (2nd Ave Sagas)
- If It’s Not Crammed With Parking, Bronx CB 11 Doesn’t Want It to Be Built (BxTimes)
- NYPD Lieutenant Pleads Guilty to Drunk Driving Off-Duty (Advance)
- Without Good Transit, Better Transportation Tech Can Only Do So Much to Reduce Car Ownership (MTR)
- Early Contender for the “Most Useless Public Health Research” Streetsie Award (Post)
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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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