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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

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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