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Ben Fried
8:53 AM EDT on June 14, 2016
- Cuomo’s Sinking Stakes in the Ground for His Pointless LaGuardia AirTrain (NY1)
- Business and Labor Beg Albany to Pass Cost-Saving Design-Build Bill (Crain’s)
- Fernando Cabrera: Ask Other Straphangers to Fund Fare Discounts for Low-Income Riders (AMNY)
- Two Drivers and One Passenger Killed in Two Separate Crashes Yesterday (News)
- While Legislators Hem and Haw on Speed Cams, Rail Crossing Safety Bills Breeze Through Albany (News)
- Truckers Aren’t Following the Freight Route Bypassing Grand Avenue in Maspeth (QChron)
- City Spending $4.3 Million on 14 Bus Pads for S79 Route (DNA)
- Spend Your Summer Vacation Going to Streetcar Meetings in Brooklyn and Queens (DNA)
- Got a Bike/Ped Project You Want New York State to Fund? This Is Your Chance. (MTR)
- Public Spaces Help Us Mourn and Heal (TL, QChron)
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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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