Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:57 AM EDT on September 28, 2017
- Extortionist Cuomo Threatens to Nix Subway Work If New Yorkers Don’t Pay Up (News, WNYC)
- If Cuomo Comes Clean on His Bridge and Tunnel Decorations, the Terrorists Win (Politico)
- RPA Chair, RXR CEO Scott Rechler: NYC Needs Toll Reform + Transit Lockbox (Crain’s)
- Trump Apologist Michael Goodwin Hates Road Pricing, Blames … de Blasio (Post)
- Just What the Subway Needs: Frenetic Video Screens You Can’t Get Away From (Gothamist)
- The MTA Bus Driver Coming Up Behind You Might Have Untreated Sleep Apnea (Post)
- Assembly Member Pamela Harris Intros Bill to Keep Drivers Away From Protests (News)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Jose Gomez, 71, on Northern Boulevard in Corona (News, DNA)
- Daily News Staff Responsible for This Headline Should Check Their Capacity for Shame
- 19th Precinct’s Junked Car Lot Is Like an Exhibit on Its Failure to Enforce Speeding (DNA)
- More Space for People on the Brooklyn Bridge Can’t Come Soon Enough (Bicycling)
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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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