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8:48 AM EDT on October 20, 2015

    • Veronica Vanterpool: We Don't Have to Wait for Gateway to Improve Trans-Hudson Transit (Crain's)
    • Cab Driver Who Killed Two on Bronx Sidewalk Charged With Manslaughter (Gothamist)
    • Is the MTA in Good Enough Shape to Revive the B71 and F Express? (Bklyn Paper)
    • AMNY Runs Down What's in the Next MTA Capital Plan
    • With MTA Capital Plan Purportedly Funded, Upstate Lawmakers Want Money for Roads (Politico)
    • Chin and Brewer Intro Bill to Cap Number of Tour Buses in NYC (DNA)
    • Students, Parents, and Teachers Terrified of Crossing 47th Street By PS 343 in Sunnyside (DNA)
    • Uber Looking to Expand to the Rest of New York State (News)
    • A Guide to the Uber/Medallion Wars in NYC (Crain's)
    • The Department of Transformation Strikes Again (Gothamist)

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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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