Today’s Headlines
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Ben Fried
8:50 AM EDT on June 30, 2016
- Chris Christie Presses NJ Senate to Raise the Gas Tax (Politico)
- Signs of Progress in the Effort to Reform NYC’s Commercial Trash Carting Industry (Crain’s – Paywall)
- How Does Narrowing Flatbush Ave By the Manny-B Affect Traffic? Let’s Find Out (Bklyn Paper)
- Brooklyn’s Tallest Building Will Come With a New Entrance to Dekalb Ave Subway Station (Bklyn Paper)
- Sauchu Chen, Hit By Driver on Staten Island Saturday, Dies From Injuries (Advance)
- Driver Killed in Two-Car Crash on Cross Island Parkway (News)
- Amazing That More People Don’t Lose Their Lives on NYC Streets (Post)
- Fines Kick in Tomorrow for NYC Businesses That Don’t Offer Transit Tax Benefit (News)
- The Advance Monitors Compliance on the Staten Island Expressway’s HOV Lane
- Times Square Plazas, Now With More Teal (DNA)
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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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