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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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