Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EDT on September 19, 2016
- Which NYC Do We Want: A City Where People Can Afford to Live or a City With Lots of Parking? (NYT)
- It’s Settled: DOT and MTA Need to Claim Lots of Street Space for Buses Before the L-Pocalypse (News)
- BMW Driver Critically Injures Pedestrian on East Tremont Ave in Schuylerville (News)
- SUV Driver Backing Up to Park Critically Injures Woman, 83, in Upper East Side Crosswalk (Post)
- Good Questions for Polly Trottenberg From NY1‘s Josh Robin
- Trottenberg: DOT Considering Automated Enforcement to Keep Bike Lanes Clear (WNYC)
- Has Mayor de Blasio Ever Ridden a Bike in NYC? (Bklyn Spoke)
- Crain’s Asks If BIDs Have Already Done Everything They Can Do for NYC
- Yes, There’s at Least One Member of Queens CB 9 Who Talks Sense About Woodhaven SBS (QChron)
- LIC’s City Ferry Service Will Dock at Gantry State Park (AMNY)
- Scenes From Park(ing) Day Around the Region (MTR)
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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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