Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:58 AM EDT on October 8, 2015
- WSJ: De Blasio to Offer MTA $2 Billion, If Albany Will Keep Cuomo’s Hands Off
- Cuomo Continues to Duck Responsibility for His MTA (Politico, News)
- DiNapoli Report Finds Virtually Zero NYC DWI Offenders Are Using Interlocks (News)
- Francisco Moya: Let’s Make 111th Street Safe by Keeping People on the Margins (DNA)
- Advance Profiles Latest Hylan Boulevard Traffic Violence Victims … (1, 2)
- … As James Oddo Twitter-Blocks “Lunatics” Who Question Him on Street Safety (@2AvSagas)
- Drivers Kill Pedestrian on LIE, Injure Another on Upper East Side (News)
- Getting Away With Deadly Traffic Violations Is Super Fun, If You Write for the Post
- 88th Precinct Too Busy Harassing People for Being Outside to Enforce Traffic Laws (DNA)
- Park Slope Civic Council Campaigns to Revive the B71, Lost in 2010 Service Cuts (Bklyn Paper)
- Sunnyside NIMBYs: How Odd That a Residential Structure Should Displace Motorcar Storage (Gazette)
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Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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