Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:20 AM EDT on June 8, 2016
- 11 Pols Raise the Prospect of a 14th Street Busway With DOT and the MTA (Gothamist)
- Cuomo Sends MTA Board Nominees to Senate, Again (Politico, WNYC, SAS); Why the Delay? (CapTon)
- More Coverage of the Vehicular Killing of Leah Sylvain (News, Post)
- De Blasio Zoning Rewrite Made It Easier to Mix Supportive Housing and Retail (Crain’s)
- MTA’s Bus Stop Consolidation for M23 Select Bus Service Will Leave 20th Street Stop As Is (DNA)
- Queens City Council Delegation Wants DOT to Study Reviving Service on LIRR’s Montauk Branch (News)
- Protesters Make the MTA Pay for NYPD’s Aggressive Fare Evasion Enforcement (AMNY)
- Cheap Oil — Terrible for Life on Earth, Terrific for Staten Island Pols (Advance)
- Tom Wroblewski: If I Ran Over a Kid on a Bike, the Real Victim Would Be Me (Advance)
- Yesterday’s Motor Mayhem, Starring NYPD (Post, News 1, 2, 3)
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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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