Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:54 AM EDT on June 26, 2017
- Jim Dwyer Rips Electeds Who Played Politics With Transit While Neglecting Basic Needs (NYT)
- Subway Maintenance Malpractice Is Nothing New. How Will Cuomo Turn It Around? (Post 1, 2)
- NYT: Cuomo Doesn’t Need More Board Members to Fix MTA; News: Pay for Fixes With Road Pricing
- Service Is Worse and Expectations Are Higher Than the Last Time Joe Lhota Ran the MTA (MTR)
- Internal Affairs Showed Up at @PlacardAbuse‘s House to Intimidate Him (Post)
- DOT Moving Ahead With More Bus Lanes on Woodhaven Boulevard (QChron)
- Taxi Driver Critically Injures Cyclist on Canal Street (DNA)
- Wrong-Way Driver Fleeing Police Seriously Injures Cyclist in Midtown (News)
- The Man Who Assaulted Domingo Diego-Tapia and Put Him in a Coma Has Been Apprehended (DNA)
- Massey: Deck Over the Cross-Bronx and BQE With $400 Million in New Parks (Post)
- Guessing That No One Who Worked on This WNBC Piece Bikes on NYC Streets
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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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