Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:51 AM EDT on June 1, 2015
- Albany Won’t Act on $14 Billion Hole in MTA Capital Plan (News)
- Livery Driver Kills Man Near Yankee Stadium; No Charges (Gothamist)
- SUV Driver Kills Man Walking By Double-Parked Vehicle in Midwood; No Charges (News)
- QChron Talks to Transit Advocates About Woodhaven BRT
- Surprise: Bus Lanes for the Q44 Have Some People Freaking Out About Traffic (QChron)
- Queens CB 3 Votes for Raft of Bike/Ped Improvements (QChron)
- Staten Island North Shore Residents Clog Streets With Cars to Protest Upzoning (Advance)
- Delivering Mattresses By Bike Cuts Costs For Start-Up Casper (Crain’s)
- Parking Spaces of the .001 Percent (DNA)
- Damned Bike Lanes (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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