Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:52 AM EDT on June 16, 2017
- Gothamist: Dan Hanegby Crash Video Contradicts NYPD Victim-Blaming
- What Happens While the 10th Precinct Tickets People on Bikes: DNA, CBS, ABC, AMNY
- Related: Ydanis Bill Would Require More Sidewalk Bollards (AMNY); And: ABC; Advance 1, 2
- Cuomo and de Blasio Fight Over Who Cares More About the MTA (Politico; News; Post 1, 2)
- State Senate Passes Bill to Kill the Payroll Mobility Tax (Poughkeepsie Journal)
- Grandstanding Cuomo Directs MTA to Stop Paying Amtrak for Penn Station (News, Post)
- Cuomo’s New Penn Concourse: Nice, But Won’t Make the Trains Run on Time (NYT, Gothamist, MTR)
- Hudson Yards Isn’t Paying for Itself, Much Less the 7 Line Extension (NYT, AMNY)
- DiNapoli: MTA Failing to Meet Its Own Standards on Subway Station Repairs (AMNY)
- Driver Convicted of Manslaughter for Queens Crash That Killed Mother and 2 Kids (DNA)
- MTA Cop Hits Staten Island Pedestrian — and You’ll Probably Believe What Happens Next (News, Post)
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Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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