Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EDT on October 18, 2016
- NYPD Still Fails to Apprehend Most Hit-and-Run Killers (News)
- Slow Pace of Street Redesigns on Staten Island Isn’t Making a Dent in Traffic Deaths (Advance)
- Six of the 10 Deadliest Staten Island Intersections Are on Hylan Boulevard (Advance)
- Ken Thompson Deputy Eric Gonzalez Will Serve Remainder of Term as Brooklyn DA (Bklyn Paper)
- Danny Lin Gets Up to 5 Years for Driving 55 on the Bowery and Killing Robert Perry (News)
- Unlicensed, Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Guler Uger-Yaacobi Sentenced to 1-3 Years (Post)
- 1 Vanderbilt Subway Platform Upgrades Will Enable Up to 6,000 More Boardings Per Hour at GCT (AMNY)
- Where Should NYC’s New Food Carts Go? (Post)
- A Look at Staten Island’s Toxic Car Culture (Advance)
- The South Street Bike Path Got Spruced Up With Some Color Under the FDR (AMNY)
- Who Needs Functional Streets When You’ve Got a Chopper (Post)
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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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