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By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EDT on August 25, 2017
- Bank Settlements Bailed Out Cuomo’s Tappan Zee Bridge Vanity Project (News, WSJ, Politico)
- Related: Cuomo Drove Over the Tappan Zee All the Way Back to the 1950s (SoP)
- Edouard Menuau, 59, Dies From Injuries Inflicted By Cabbie on Canal Street; NYPD Blames Victim (DNA)
- Daily News Goes Off on de Blasio for Dismissing Toll Reform; Post Says MTA Doesn’t Deserve the Revenue
- Albany, Don’t Listen to Former DOT Chief Lou Riccio, Just Pass Move MY (News)
- 2010 MTA Service Cuts Strained the Bus Network and Bus Drivers Still Feel It (WNYC)
- Amtrak: Penn Station Track Repairs Will Be Done By Labor Day (AMNY, Gothamist)
- DOT’s On-Street Car-Share Pilot Set to Launch in the Fall (DNA)
- The Times Discovers Parklets
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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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