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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

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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