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By Brad Aaron

8:58 AM EDT on May 3, 2016

Kaminsky Officially Wins Skelos’s Old Seat, Giving Democrats Majority in State Senate (AP, Politico)
Not Your Imagination: The Subway Is Bursting at the Seams (NYT)
To Get Vendors Off Sidewalks, Ydanis Rodriguez Wants More Upper Manhattan Plazas (DNA)
Car Thieves Still at Large After Killing Chooi Tan on Canarsie Sidewalk; Daily News: “Accident”
Cops Crash Cruiser in Upper Manhattan Chase (Metro); Hit-and-Run Driver Injures Bronx Officer (AMNY)
Motorcyclist Kills Self on Belt Parkway in Howard Beach (Metro)
Girl Scouts Lobby for Improvements at Inwood Intersection Where DOT Just Installed Sharrows (DNA)
AMNY Looks at Uber’s Explosive Growth in NYC
Here’s Part Two of Gothamist’s “Film Your Bike Commute” Series
Anonymous NYPD Officer Helps Cyclist, Gets a Post Story

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Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.

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