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  • NYT: Cuomo Has to Fix the Subways, and It Starts With Picking a “Capable and Credible” MTA Chief
  • Pat Foye Not Interested in Splitting Power at the MTA With Cuomo Enforcer Larry Schwartz (News)
  • Must-Read Interview With the Anonymous Crusader Behind @PlacardAbuse in Tribeca Citizen 
  • Gridlock Sam: De Blasio’s School Placard Surge Makes It “More Likely We’ll Have Children Hit By Cars” (NYT)
  • Daily News: Discipline in Minting New Placards Beats a Crackdown After the Fact
  • Drugged SUV Driver Kills Pedestrian Jinhe Niu, 67, in Flushing Monday Night (News)
  • Multiple Drivers Strike and Kill Man Near Cross-Bronx Expressway Ramp, None Stop (Post, News)
  • More Carnage: 17 Injured in Bus-Truck Collision (ABC7); Fatal 2-Car Crash (News); Van Driver Injures Motorcyclist (News); S.I. Hit-and-Run (Post)
  • Eric Adams: East New York Deserves a Better LIRR Station Than What the MTA Provides (AMNY)
  • De Blasio Waits for Cuomo to Answer for the MTA’s Struggles (Politico)
  • What Would Harlem Be Without Its… Gas Stations? (NYT)
  • Pity Poor Steve Cuozzo and His Desperate Bid for Clicks (TransAlt)

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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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