Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:58 AM EDT on July 14, 2017
- It Just Got Harder to Clean Up Albany (NYT 1, 2; News 1, 2)
- SUV Driver Kills Man Crossing East Tremont Ave; NYPD: Crash Appears to Be “Accidental” (News)
- Richard Rojas Pleads Not Guilty to Murder for Times Square Motor Rampage (NYT, News, Post)
- MTA Tells Queens Pols CBTC on the 7 Line Still on Schedule to Go Live This Year (QChron)
- Bay Ridge Council Candidate John Quaglione — He’ll Go to the Mat for Free Parking! (Bklyn Eagle)
- Review of Penn Station Concourses Will Proceed Without Tom Prendergast (Politico)
- What WNYC Learned From Week 1 of the Summer of Hell
- The Data in This Bike-Lanes-Boost-Property-Values Story Is Very Thin (DNA)
- Driver Crashes Into West Brighton Nail Salon, One Injured (Advance)
- FXFOWLE and SSE’s Vision for the Driverless Future Looks a Lot Like Streetopia (Crain’s)
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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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