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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EDT on October 31, 2016
- If School Bus Drivers Strike, City Will Buy Students MetroCards — or Pay for Car Costs (News)
- Reynoso, Van Bramer to DSNY: Make a Better Plan to Clear Snow From Bike Lanes (AMNY)
- If a Reanimated Robert Moses Could Ram These Projects Through, Would You Want Him To? (Crain’s)
- Driver Hits and Drags Woman By Queens Midtown Tunnel and Peels Off — Still at Large (Post)
- Cops Crash Into Civilian Car, 4 Injured; FDNY Ambulance Driver Wounds Brownsville Boy (Post 1, 2)
- Cuomo Guy Larry Schwartz Skips Out on Almost All MTA Board Meetings (News)
- The Posturing for the Next Round of MTA/TWU Negotiations Has Begun (Post)
- Vacca Wants City Ferries to Run From the East Bronx to Manhattan (BxTimes)
- QChron on Revised 111th Street Safety Plan: But What About the Parking?
- Expect Less Traffic on the Bayonne, Goethals, and Outerbridge Starting Tomorrow (Advance)
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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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