Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:51 AM EDT on September 12, 2016
- Primary Day Is Tomorrow and Politico Has a Guide to the Races
- Jay Street Protected Bike Lane Needs Better Protection (Bklyn Paper 1, 2, 3)
- Traffic on the Rise on MTA and Port Authority Crossings (Post)
- 23-Year-Old Woman Killed in Two-Car Crash in Ozone Park (News, Post)
- Vehicular Killing of Senior Spurs Call for Traffic Calming on Bronxdale Ave (BxTimes)
- There’s Less Public Review for Huge Highway Widenings on Staten Island Than for NYC Bike Lanes (LL)
- Here’s How the Post Covered de Blasio’s Remarks About Street Safety on Brian Lehrer
- Tri-State: Reduce Traffic Deaths By Investing in Transit
- Citi Bike NIMBY Mad Libs, Industrial Gowanus Edition (DNA)
- Eat Your Heart Out, Woody Allen (Patch)
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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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