Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:59 AM EDT on March 31, 2017
- Turning Motorist Kills Jacob Bavdaz, 84, in Riverdale (Press)
- Staten Island Driver Fleeing Police Critically Injures Child, Flees Scene (Advance, DNA, News)
- De Blasio Must Remove Community Boards From Transportation Planning (Voice)
- New Yorkers Reject Felder Ploy to Make Ocean Parkway More Deadly (Bklyn Paper, @ohlukeson)
- Albany Lawmakers Already Dividing the Spoils From Uber Expansion (Politico)
- Court Ruling Keeps NYPD Disciplinary Records Under Wraps (NYT)
- That Manhattan-Bronx Greenway Extension Cuomo Promised? He Lied (Press)
- Jury at Standstill in Murder Trial of Truck Thief Who Killed MTA Bus Driver (Post)
- Bloomberg: Trump Can’t Undo Climate Progress by Himself … (NYT)
- … But He Can Kill Your Neighborhood Garden (WNYC)
- Walking in NYC: Reality (Gothamist) vs. Sensationalist Media Tripe (MTR)
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Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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