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By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EDT on April 11, 2017
- New York’s Budget Deal Hands Cuomo a Cudgel to Bludgeon the Port Authority (Politico)
- Cuomo and Christie Want in on Amtrak’s Penn Station Inspection (AMNY, Post, NY1)
- NY/NJ Senators Warn of a World Without Federal Transit Funding (NYT)
- The Times and Nicole Gelinas Call Out Trump’s Incoherence on Infrastructure
- Truck Driver Backs Over and Kills Hou Li, 63, in Williamsburg Parking Lot (DNA, News)
- MTA Cools on F Express Revival (AMNY)
- Abolish Parking Placards (Post)
- Does the Medallion Industry Have a Future? (Crain’s)
- DDC’s Not Good at Building Libraries Either (WSJ – Paywall)
- Gothamist Reviews the Top Entries in TransAlt’s 14th Street PeopleWay Competition
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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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