Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:59 AM EDT on September 22, 2017
- Bill de Blasio Is a Coward (Gothamist)
- Who You Gonna Believe, Straphangers — Cuomo or Your Own Lyin’ Eyes? (Voice, NYT, DNA)
- Post: The MTA Needs Transparency to Protect Public From Governors Like Cuomo
- Will the Climate Change Visionary’s Massive New Highway Bridge Have Space for Buses? (MTR)
- NTSB: Engineers Who Caused NJ Transit, LIRR Crashes Had Sleep Apnea; Trump: Whatever (AP)
- Attorney Banks on Jury to Empathize With Driver Who Killed Victoria Nicodemus (DNA)
- “Ride Out” Cyclist Talks to Gothamist About NYPD Arrests
- NYPD Detective Charged for Assaulting, Pulling Gun on Cyclist (NYT, News, Post, DNA)
- DOT Construction Delays Endanger Life and Limb Outside Forest Hills School (DNA)
- Take a Walk Under the Soul-Crushing Highway NYC Plans to Spend Billions to Sustain (NYT)
- New York Isn’t London (NYT)
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Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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