Today’s Headlines
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Ben Fried
8:57 AM EDT on April 19, 2016
- Subway Ridership Hit 67-Year High in 2015 (News, NY1, DNA)
- At the Same Time, On-Time Performance Is Getting Worse (WNYC)
- Cuomo’s Earth Day Posturing Would Feel a Lot More Genuine If He Cared About Transit (MTR)
- Winner of Today’s Vote to Replace Shelly Silver Could Rep Lower Manhattan for Decades (JP Updates)
- Skateboarder Killed in Crash With Parks Department Truck Driver Was Rodney Tavarez, 18 (News)
- We’ll Know a Lot More About the L Train Shutdown Next Month (2nd Ave Sagas, NYT, DNA)
- More Frequent Off-Peak Service Coming to the 2 and 7 Trains (NY1, DNA 1, 2)
- The Times Explains MTA’s Next-Gen Fare Payment
- …Which Probably Won’t Debut on Schedule, If You Can Believe It (News)
- James Vacca Tries to Keep Traffic Moving (BxTimes)
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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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