Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EST on February 15, 2016
- Turning Truck Driver Kills Elise Lachowyn, 44, By Javits Center; Victim Blamed for Wearing Hood (Post)
- DOT to Widen Sidewalk Where Tenzin Drudak Was Killed, Shrink Sidewalk on Other Side of Street (DNA)
- Con-Ed, National Grid Want MTA to Pay for Relocating Utilities for Second Ave Subway (Post)
- Calatrava: $4 Billion WTC PATH Station a “Message of Love to the City” (Post)
- Eric Adams, Riders Alliance Call for Free Transfers Between Junius/Livonia Stations in Brownsville (NY1)
- An R Train Derailed Between 14th Street and 23rd Street Saturday Night (News)
- Port Greenlights Two Big Airport Projects and LaGuardia AirTrain Isn’t One of Them (Politico)
- Moving? You Can Pay the Cargo Bike Collective to Haul Your Stuff (NYT)
- MTA/TWU Have a Plan to Get Station Agents Out of Booths Again (News)
- Line Maps on the 2 and 5 Get a New Look (2nd Ave Sagas, NY1)
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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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