Today’s Headlines
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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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