Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EST on February 29, 2016
- Horrible Traffic Death Toll Over the Weekend (News, NYT, Post, DNA)
- Leave It to CBS2 to Find a Source Who Blames Hit-and-Run Carnage on the Damned Bike Lanes
- Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Off-Duty NYPD Officer in Jersey (News, Fox5)
- NBBL Wars: The Farce Awakens (Gothamist)
- A Rosy Spin on What DC’s Streetcar Tribulations Mean for NYC (NYT)
- Hard to Hold Cuomo Accountable for the MTA When Most New Yorkers Don’t Know He Runs It (NY1)
- 51 Percent of New Yorkers Don’t Feel Safe on the Subway at Night (Politico)
- If You Want to Kick Up a Fuss About the Times Square Plazas, the Daily News Is Your Platform
- News Lays Into Port Authority and Calatrava for $4.4 Billion PATH Station
- Same Guys Who Try to Stop All Multi-Modal Projects in Harlem Line Up Against Citi Bike (News)
- Metered Parking Coming to Fulton Street in Clinton Hill (DNA)
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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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