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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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