Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EDT on May 22, 2017
- It’s Unanimous: The Subways Are Cuomo’s Problem to Fix (NYT, News, 2AS, Gothamist, Politico)
- Daily News Triple Feature on the Troubles With Subway Trains, Switches and Signals, and Reliability
- Charles Komanoff’s 3-Point Plan to Fix NYC Transit (News); Nicole Gelinas’s 10-Point Plan (Post)
- There Better Be More to the L Train Shutdown Plan Than What the Daily News Is Reporting Here
- Bad Omen for Penn Station — Cuomo’s Begging Trump for Help (NYT, AMNY)
- Video of Times Square Motor Rampage Utterly Horrifying (Gothamist); One Victim Comatose (News)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Critically Injures 8-Year-Old Girl in Mill Basin (News, WPIX, Gothamist)
- Pay-By-Phone Parking Now Live in Brooklyn and Staten Island (DNA)
- Catch Up With Transit Advocates Gene Russianoff (NYT) and John Raskin (Politico)
- New Bike/Ped Approach to Brooklyn Bridge From Adams Street Nearing Completion (Bklyn Paper)
- Wanted: Candidates for NYC Elected Office Who Care About Transit (Voice)
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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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