Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:49 AM EDT on June 21, 2016
- Hope for Move NY Next Year? Staten Island Republican Andrew Lanza Supports Modified Version (Crain’s)
- Fallback Traffic Reduction Plan: Bribe a Few NYPD Officers (Post)
- Driver Killed 70-Year-Old Man Walking Across Atlantic Ave at Clinton Street Sunday Night (DNA)
- Engineer: Finishing 2nd Ave Subway in 2016 Will Take “Unprecedented Performance” (AMNY)
- Contractor Schiavone Construction Isn’t Staffing 2nd Ave Subway Work Sites Properly (News, Post)
- New Select Bus Service Routes Launching This Year: M23, B46, Q70 (AMNY)
- Daily News: Make the Q70 a Free Link to LaGuardia
- More Victims Are Coming Forward to Report Sex Crimes on the Subway (DNA, News, NY1, AMNY)
- Ydanis Rodriguez Hasn’t Been Confirmed to MTA Board (WNYC)
- Recent Carnage: Motorcyclist Killed in Crash, Stolen Cab “Joyride” Ends in Bloody Wreck (News 1, 2)
- To Catch a Bike Thief, It Helps to Have Photos of You on Your Missing Bike (Velojoy)
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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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