Today’s Headlines
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Ben Fried
8:59 AM EDT on April 12, 2017
- Albany’s Final Budget Includes Cuomo’s $65 Million MTA Funding Cut (AMNY, News)
- Watch the Failure of Federal and State Transport Policy Play Out Before Your Eyes (MTR)
- Gateway Builders Look to Get Hudson Transit Tunnel Done With Private Finance (Politico, WNYC)
- NJ Lawmakers Come Out Swinging Against Cuomo’s Port Authority Power Grab (Politico)
- Turning Driver Strikes Cyclist at Same Sunnyside Intersection Where Gelasio Reyes Was Killed (News, TL, Post)
- Brooklyn DA: Driver Who Ran Over Michael Joefield Was Trying to Kill Himself and His Passenger (DNA)
- NYPD Has Already Confiscated More E-Bikes This Year Than All of 2016 (AMNY)
- Tomorrow: Manhattan CB 5 Votes on Madison Square Shared Space (NYT)
- The Advance Presses for Ferry Service Between Staten Island and Brooklyn
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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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