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  • De Blasio: NYC Needs Housing, Despite Parking-Obsessed Community Boards (Times Ledger)
  • De Blasio and Other Mayors Ask Congress to Increase Infrastructure Funding (News)
  • NJ Transit Chief Veronique Hakim Will Be New NYC Transit Director (News)
  • Cuomo Wants to Suspend Registrations of Toll Evaders; Deadly Drivers, Carry On (News)
  • Cy Vance Wins Homicide Conviction of Driver Who Killed Jean Chambers (DNA)
  • Advance Editorialist Tom Wrobleski: People Are Gonna Die in Traffic, and That’s OK
  • Richard Brown: Probation and 6-Month License Suspension for Killer Car Thief (DNA)
  • Parks Department Contractors Taking Down a Tree Critically Injure Red Hook Cyclist (Gothamist)
  • Drunk Passenger Steals Cab in Manhattan (Post); In Queens, Street Safety = Random Heroics (News)
  • DOT Completes Redesign of Dangerous Seventh Avenue South Intersection (DNA)
  • Heastie: Albany Will Continue Business as Usual Regardless of Silver Verdict (Politico)

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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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