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By
Ben Fried
8:55 AM EST on February 21, 2017
- DOT May Extend Fulton Street Bus Lanes to Clinton Hill (Bklyn Paper)
- Third Avenue and Seventh Avenue — Throwbacks to 1950s Street Design (AMNY)
- Port Authority Mulls $4 Fee for Taxi Pick-Ups and Drop-Offs at Airports (News)
- Daily News: Forget the AirTrain to LaGuardia and Extend the N Instead
- DOT Watered Down Its Bike Lane Plan for the DUMBO Section of Jay Street (Bklyn Paper)
- City Limits Surveys the State of Street Safety in NYC
- Why Exactly Are These North Brooklyn Merchants So Upset About the L Train Replacement Plan? (DNA)
- What It Would Take to Complete Cuomo’s 750-Mile Empire State Trail System (NYT)
- Midtown South Precinct Uses Ninth Avenue Turn Lane as “Overflow Parking” (DNA)
- Thanks, Robert Moses (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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