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By Ben Fried

8:48 AM EDT on July 3, 2017

State GOP Plans to Wield Subway Dysfunction as a Cudgel Against Cuomo in 2018 (News)
Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Cyclist in Bushwick; Witnesses Contradict NYPD Victim-Blaming (Gothamist, DNA)
Cabbie Kills 87-Year-Old Man at Cooper Square Sunday Night (News, Post)
SUV Driver Rear-Ends Bus on 125th Street — 12 Injured (Gothamist)
Driver Speeds Through Central Park, Crashes Into Tree and Dies (Post)
De Blasio: Without Speed Camera Expansion, “We Will Redouble Other Vision Zero Efforts” (DNA)
Cy Vance Will Stop Prosecuting Fare Evasion Arrests (NYT, AMNY)
Transit and Traffic Disasters Are Causing Frank Bruni to Lose His Faith in New York (NYT)
Lenore Skenazy: Most NYers Don’t Own Cars, So Why Do Cars Get So Much Public Space? (Bklyn Paper)
Here’s Where Bike-Share Stations Will Go in Crown Heights This Year (DNA)
Why Won’t City Hall Come Clean About Whom It Bestows With Parking Placards? (Post)

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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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