Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:48 AM EST on January 10, 2017
- JSK: Fix Trump Tower Traffic Mess — Make 5th Av a Car-Free Transit+Pedestrian Street (NYT)
- Drivers Killed Three People in Brooklyn in Separate Crashes Yesterday (News, DNA, Gothamist)
- There’s a New Subway Near de Blasio’s House But It Doesn’t Go to His Park Slope Gym, So… (News, AMNY)
- A Blocked Storm Drain at W 4th Street Caused Yesterday’s Cascade of Subway Delays (AMNY)
- Subway Riders: We’re Suffocating Down Here! The Times: How’s the Wi-Fi?
- Cuomo’s Next Round of “Buffalo Billion”: Fewer Business Tax Breaks, More Light Rail (Politico)
- How Cashless Tolling at Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Nabbed a Toll Cheat (Post)
- What’s Up With the W Trains Running on the R Line in Brooklyn? (Bklyn Paper)
- Bklyn Paper Asks If Park Slope Will Get On-Street Car-Share Spots
- Tony Avella’s Transportation Priorities (TL)
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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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