Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EDT on September 26, 2017
- As Transit Delays Reached Crisis Levels, Cuomo’s MTA Spent $40 Million on Bridge Decorations (Politico)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Matt von Ohlen Convicted of Manslaughter (Gothamist, News)
- The Defense of the Driver Who Killed Victoria Nicodemus Is That He Was Awake (DNA, Post)
- DA Offers to Cap Sentence at 60 Days for Michael Khmil, Whose Negligence Caused Death of Alexa Cioffi (Advance)
- SUV Driver Hits Boy in Sheepshead Bay (News); Cabbie Injures Man in Wheelchair on UES (Post)
- Lander: Add Bus Arrival Info to LinkNYC Kiosks (AMNY, DNA, Bklyner)
- More Coverage of the MTA’s Performance Dashboard (NYT, AMNY, WNYC, Post)
- Gateway Builders Praying Related Companies Will Pay for Tunnel Box Segment Under Hudson Yards (Politico)
- NYC DOT: Seventh Avenue Protected Bike Lane Construction Starts This Week (DNA)
- State DOT Turns Overflow Car Storage Area in Maspeth Into a New Space for People (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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