Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:59 AM EDT on May 5, 2016
- Driver Kills Senior Richard Headley in Midtown; No Summonses, No Charges (Gothamist)
- Partially-Shut Canarsie Tunnel Would Carry One-Fifth the Riders and Take 3 Years to Fix (NYT, Politico)
- City & State Finds a Lot of Holes in Cuomo’s Big Ticket Transportation Plans
- Assembly Member Robert Rodriguez Makes the Case for Toll Reform to Post Readers
- 500 Homes to Replace Public Housing Parking Lots in Brooklyn and the Bronx (NYT)
- Council Members Took Direction From Uber to Drum Up Opposition to Proposed Regulations (Politico)
- Eric Adams: NYPD Must Stop Practice of Reflexively Blaming Crash Victims (Bklyn Paper)
- NYPD, News: Brooklyn Pedestrian Critically Injured by Drunk Driver “May Have Been Jaywalking”
- More Details on the Crash That Killed Heather Lough From the News and Gothamist
- Yet Another NYPD-Involved Crash the Public Will Never Hear Anything Else About (News)
- Police Look for Brooklyn Cyclist Who Attacked Motorist, Possibly After Collision (DNA, News, Post)
- Nicole Gelinas: JSK Annoyed a Few People and Saved a Lot of Lives (City Journal 1, 2)
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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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