Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:54 AM EDT on September 10, 2015
- Manhattan Electeds Have Some Ideas to Improve Times Square and Keep the Plazas (News)
- State Judge Vehemently Declines to Protect Medallion Industry From Uber Et Al (Crain’s, Post, AMNY)
- Staten Island Ferris Wheel Developers Nix Wind Turbines, Keep the 950 Parking Spaces (Advance)
- How Clean Is the Air You Breathe While Biking in NYC? (WNYC)
- Brooklyn Paper Reviews the New Bike Racks on the S53
- Thinking Big About Biking on Staten Island (Advance)
- A Large Share of NYC’s Most Decrepit Subway Stations Are in Queens (TL)
- Rush Hour Subway Service Returns to Normal on Queens Blvd Lines as Repairs Wrap Up (AMNY)
- Mixed-Use, Parking-Free Apartment Building to Replace 4th Avenue Auto Body Shop By R Train (YIMBY)
- Westchester Judge Busted for Driving Drunk in NYC Still Thinks He Should Dispense Justice (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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