Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EDT on May 8, 2017
- Cuomo: Port Authority to Spend $70 Million Studying Cross-Harbor Freight Rail (News, Post)
- Bronx CB 4 Member Suggests Replacing Yankee Stadium Garages With Mixed-Income Housing (Post)
- The Dream of Burying the Gowanus Is Alive in Brooklyn (Crain’s)
- 2 Inches of Rain Turned NYC Roads Into Lagoons (NYT, Patch), Swamped Oculus and Penn Station (News)
- Four Lines Affected By Yesterday’s Unexpected Subway Chaos (Gothamist)
- Cyclists Constantly Have to Dodge Construction Vehicles and Cars Parked in Kent Ave Bike Lane (DNA)
- SUV Driver Critically Injures 89-Year-Old Man in Howard Beach (Post, QNS)
- Hit-and-Run Truck Driver Seriously Injures Cyclist in Bed-Stuy (Gothamist)
- Driver Strikes, Hospitalizes Woman in Mill Basin (News12)
- Bike Part Thieves + Crummy Sanitation Rules = Junk Bike Build-Up in Bay Ridge (Bklyn Paper)
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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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