Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:50 AM EST on February 23, 2016
- There’s a Special Election for a Bronx Council Seat Today and Hardly Anyone’s Expected to Vote (Post)
- Calatrava’s $4 Billion PATH Station: The Reviews Are In (NY Mag, Post)
- Port Authority Too Embarrassed to Throw a Ribbon-Cutting for WTC PATH (Politico, WNYC)
- De Blasio: Seniors “Want Affordable Housing a Lot More Than They Want a Parking Space” (News)
- What Will Queens CB 7 Say About Replacing a Parking Lot With Affordable Housing? (TL)
- Eric Adams Withholds an Endorsement of BQX (Bklyn Paper)
- Broken Rail in Midtown Caused Delays to Half a Dozen Subway Lines Yesterday (DNA)
- More of McGuinness Management’s Yellow Cabs Are Sitting Idle (Crain’s)
- The Unattended Car That Hit a Man Outside the Park Slope Food Coop Had an FDNY Placard (Gothamist)
- DOT Won’t Be Extending Time Limits for Bayside Parking Meters (QChron)
- What Makes the L Train Special (AMNY)
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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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