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Today’s Headlines

8:55 AM EDT on April 25, 2017

    • Amtrak Running Triage on the Nation's Busiest Intercity Rail Corridor (NYT)
    • MTA Board Members Bash Amtrak's Management of Penn Station (NY1)
    • Cuomo Pulls Out All the Stops to Celebrate Expensive New Highway Bridge (NY1)
    • Passenger Injured By Drunk Off-Duty Cop Has Died From Her Injuries (ABC7, News)
    • Motorcyclist Inflicts Severe Head Trauma on Woman on Bruckner Blvd, Speeds Away (News, Post)
    • MTA Wants 300 Open Gangway Subway Cars By End of 2018, 1,000 By 2023 (AMNY, News, NY1)
    • John Samuelsen Gets on de Blasio's Case About Funding Discount MetroCards (News)
    • Electric Buses for the L Train Shutdown Sound Great, as Long as They Run on Transit-Only Lanes (AMNY)
    • Queens Intersection Tweak Requires the Unthinkable -- Moving NYPD Parking to Another Block (DNA)
    • TransitCenter Talks Advocacy Strategy With the Riders Alliance's Nick Sifuentes
    • Wipe the Cars Away With Gothamist's Before-and-After Shots of Car-Free Day

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Ben Fried
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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