Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:54 AM EDT on October 10, 2017
- Cuomo on the Defensive About Moynihan Construction Crowding Out Amtrak Repairs (News)
- Vice: It Should Be Prohibitively Expensive to Drive Into the Manhattan CBD
- RPA: When the Robot Cars Come, Claim More Street Space for Buses, Bikes, and Pedestrians (AMNY)
- Nicole Gelinas Scored an Exit Interview With Outgoing TWU 100 Chief John Samuelsen (C&S)
- How Brad Hoylman Got State DOT to Study Safety Fixes for West Side Highway (DNA)
- 79-Year-Old Woman Drives Hyundai Through 7-11 Storefront in Forest Hills (DNA)
- Placard Abuse Does the Impossible and Injects Some Clarity Into a Tom Wrobleski Column (Advance)
- Tony Avella Wants to Protect Undercarriages, Not Human Life (Queens Trib)
- The Brooklyn Paper Covered Yesterday’s Car-Free Prospect Park Action
- MetroCard Vending Machines Beamed Sunshine Into the Monday Morning Commute (Gothamist)
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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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