Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:55 AM EDT on May 2, 2016
- Bharara Turns Up the Heat on Cuomo (News, Post, Politico 1, 2)
- Driver of Stolen SUV Kills Woman on Canarsie Sidewalk, Flees Scene (News, Post)
- Wrong-Way Driver Kills Woman, Injures Two Kids in Car in Woodlawn Heights (News, Post)
- Bratton Never Talks This Tough About Drivers Who Kill People (Post)
- How Do People on Waverly, St. James, and Other Clinton Hill One-Way Streets Survive? (DNA)
- Kids Take Precedence Over Cars at the East Harlem Street Games (News)
- John Tierney: Make Broadway a Pedestrian Street From Union Square to Columbus Circle (Post)
- Bike Month Starts With Prayers for Safety (News)
- Owners of Downtown Arcades Will Be Allowed to Use Them for Retail (NYT)
- The Millennium Hilton Hotel Uses Its “Bonus Plaza” as a Parking Lot (Urban Residue)
- Bob Dylan Really Did Write a Protest Song With Jane Jacobs Against Robert Moses (Gothamist)
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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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