Today’s Headlines
DDC Expects Six-Year East Houston Street Project to Wrap This Month (DNA) De Blasio Says Cops’ Discipline Records Should Be Public (DNA); Why Is NYPD Hiding Them? (DNA) Uber Has a Thought on How Uber Could Profit From L Train Shutdown (Politico, AMNY, Post) Under Pressure From Cuomo, Developers Scramble to Make It Easier to Drive to LGA (Times Ledger) Polling Site Moved for … Continued
By
Brad Aaron
8:52 AM EDT on September 2, 2016
- DDC Expects Six-Year East Houston Street Project to Wrap This Month (DNA)
- De Blasio Says Cops’ Discipline Records Should Be Public (DNA); Why Is NYPD Hiding Them? (DNA)
- Uber Has a Thought on How Uber Could Profit From L Train Shutdown (Politico, AMNY, Post)
- Under Pressure From Cuomo, Developers Scramble to Make It Easier to Drive to LGA (Times Ledger)
- Polling Site Moved for Brooklyn Heights Seniors Afraid They’d Die in Traffic (Bklyn Paper 1, 2)
- If These Folks Wanted DOT to Undo Traffic-Calming They Wouldn’t Still Be Waiting (DNA, Press)
- Cab Driver Assaults Female Passenger in Williamsburg, Flees Scene (DNA)
- Police Mostly Helpless Against Dirt Bike Riders Who Tore Through Times Square (Post)
- Advance Wants Cops to Confiscate Vehicles From Dangerous, Law-Breaking … Kids on Bikes
- Queens Gazette Account of Astoria Curb-Jump Death Could Be Worst News Article Ever Published
- Dealing With People in Cars From the Confines of a Toll Booth as Awful as You’d Imagine (NYT)
Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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