Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:57 AM EDT on July 24, 2017
- Hit-and-Run Garbage Truck Driver Kills Cyclist, 27, on Franklin Street in Greenpoint (Gothamist)
- Hit-and-Run SUV Driver Kills Alejandro Tello, 18, on Skateboard in Gravesend (News)
- MTA Bus Driver Kills Kevin Zeng, 25, on Union Turnpike (News)
- Danielle Davis on How NYPD’s Crash Investigation Compounded the Pain of Her Sister Lauren’s Death (Medium)
- Subway Delays This May Were Up 33 Percent Compared to May 2016 (NY1)
- F Train-Riding de Blasio: Cuomo “Needs to Take Responsibility for the MTA” (NYT, Politico, News, WNYC, AMNY, Post)
- Here’s the “Both Sides” Coverage of the Subway Crisis You Knew Was Coming From the Times
- TWU Submits a 10-Point Plan to Improve Subway Reliability (News)
- Advocates Give AMNY Their Take on What’s Wrong With the Subways and How to Fix It
- Signal Priority for Buses Works, But Just a Few Routes Have It (AMNY)
- Queens Pols Still Fighting to Water Down Woodhaven Boulevard Bus Lanes (QChron)
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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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