Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EDT on September 13, 2016
- It’s Primary Day — Your Vote Carries a Lot of Weight and the Polls Are Open Until 9 PM (NY1, Post)
- Nikolas Padilla, 18, Assaulted By Racist Road Ragers While Biking, Made Mistake of Calling NYPD (DNA)
- City Hall Brags About Bike Lane Mileage But Hasn’t Committed More Resources to Redesigns (AMNY)
- Why Is NYC’s Bike Network Still So Half-Baked? (Thrillist)
- DOT Will Stripe a Bike Lane on Eighth Street Between Sixth Ave and Astor Place (DNA)
- AECOM: 1 Train Extension + Landfill = 45,000 New Apartments in Red Hook (Crain’s, NY1)
- J/Z Riders Petition to Open the Gates at Shuttered Gates Avenue Station Entrance (DNA)
- DMV Owes Con-Ed Driver Who Killed Pedestrian a Valid License ASAP, Says Driver’s Lawyer (News)
- Woman Intentionally Struck By Cabbie Sues Him and the Livery Company He Worked For (Post)
- Good News for Westchester’s Network of Off-Street Bike Trails (MTR)
- Scenes From a Car-Free Columbia Street (Bklyn Paper)
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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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