Today’s Headlines
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8:52 AM EDT on April 7, 2015
- Things Aren’t Getting Any Better for Subway Riders as System Slides Into Disrepair (WSJ, News)
- Driver Swerves, Hits UPS Worker on Hylan Blvd; Victim Will Lose Legs (Advance 1, 2, 3)
- Newark Airport Extension? Tri-State Suggests Better Ways for PATH to Spend $1.5 Billion (MTR)
- WPIX Finds NYPD Parking Enforcement Officers Illegally Parked in the Garment District
- Tug-of-War in City Council Over Bill to Cap Uber’s Surge Pricing (Crain’s)
- Two Car Occupants Die in Speed-Fueled Crash in Jamaica (TL, DNA)
- Drunk Driver Injures Himself in Crash With Soundview School Bus (News)
- Former Chinatown Gas Station to Be Redeveloped as Office Building (News via Bowery Boogie)
- Bill Nye the Science Guy Turns Down Black Cars, Rides the Subway Instead (NYT)
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In spring 2017, Stephen wrote for Streetsblog USA, covering the livable streets movement and transportation policy developments around the nation.
From August 2012 to October 2015, he was a reporter for Streetsblog NYC, covering livable streets and transportation issues in the city and the region. After joining Streetsblog, he covered the tail end of the Bloomberg administration and the launch of Citi Bike. Since then, he covered mayoral elections, the de Blasio administration's ongoing Vision Zero campaign, and New York City's ever-evolving street safety and livable streets movements.
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