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Today’s Headlines

8:53 AM EDT on August 9, 2016

    • Wider Brooklyn Bridge Path = Good News (AMNY, DNA, Gothamist, Crain's, WNYC, NY1, News, Post)
    • Daily News Admits It Was Wrong on Stop-and-Frisk
    • Suspected Drunk Driver With Suspended License Critically Injured Man in Sheepshead Bay (News)
    • Council Delays Vote on Inwood Housing Project on Parking Lot Site (Politico)
    • Affordable Housing to Replace Two Parking Garages in Astoria (DNA, YIMBY)
    • Industrial Businesses Seek Protection From Rising Property Values BQX Is Supposed to Induce (Crain's)
    • QueensWay vs. Rockaway Rail vs. NIMBYs (TL)
    • Paris Responds to Terror Attacks By Canceling Car-Free Events (Post)
    • "Earth Overshoot Day" Comes Earlier Every Year (MTR)

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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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