Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:58 AM EDT on May 2, 2017
- How Many People Will Ride the City’s New Ferry Service? (NYT, News, Post, AMNY, WNYC)
- Why Are Subway Elevators and Escalators Broken? Because the MTA Doesn’t Maintain Them (News, AMNY)
- Daily News: MTA’s Not Doing Enough to Make the Subways Wheelchair-Accessible
- Driver Critically Injures 12-Year-Old Boy in Harlem (News)
- City Hall Allocates $17 Million for Safety Fixes on Thomson Ave Where Tenzin Drudak Was Killed (DNA)
- Port Authority to Study Building New Bus Terminal on Same Site as Current One (DNA)
- Amtrak’s Summer Rehab Schedule Could Knock Out Chunks of Penn Station for Weeks (Politico)
- A Dispatch From the “Alternate Universe Where People Actually Like Their Subway” — AKA London (NYT)
- With Adjacent Stations Closed for Rehab, the Platforms at 59th Street in Bay Ridge Are Crammed (Bklyn Paper)
- Corrections Official de Blasio Defended for Abusing City Car Perks Gave to de Blasio Campaign (News)
- Brooklyn Spoke: When Will Police Value Safety More Than Order?
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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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