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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

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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