Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:44 AM EDT on April 5, 2016
- NYPD’s Plan to Stop Blaring Parades of Illegal Motorcycles and ATVs: Crush Them on TV (Post, News)
- Thief Uses Stolen Truck as Murder Weapon (NYT, Bklyn Paper)
- MTA Will Study West Shore Light Rail on Staten Island (Advance, DNA)
- Weird: Oddo Floats One-Way Bus Lane and Bike Lanes for Richmond Terrace (DNA)
- Crashes Are Down on Staten Island But Traffic Fatalities Shot Up in 2015 (Advance)
- Gale Brewer Wants the MTA to Avoid a Full Shutdown of the Canarsie Tubes (AMNY)
- New Elevators and Stairwells Coming to Crowded 68th Street Station on the Lex Line Next Year (DNA)
- Who’s Looking to Land the Deal to Overhaul Penn Station? The Usual Suspects (Crain’s)
- Preet Recommends at Least 12 Years in Prison for Albany Felon Dean Skelos (Politico)
- The Scrum for Scraps of Park Slope Street Space (Bklyn Paper)
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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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