Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EST on December 11, 2017
- Port Authority and Connected Subway Stations on Lockdown After Underground Explosion (News, Post)
- MTA’s New Batch of Bombardier Subway Trains Won’t Stop Breaking Down (News)
- If GOP Passes Federal Tax Bill, Heastie May Scuttle Millionaire’s Tax in New York (News)
- Andy Byford Will Be Living His Best Life as Head of New York City Transit (AMNY)
- NYC DOT: Without BQE Repairs, Trucks Will Have to Take Local Downtown Brooklyn Streets (Post)
- TransAlt Kicks Off Campaign for Fourth Phase of Queens Boulevard Redesign (Queens Trib)
- City Hall Has Sold Pieces of Nine Streets to Developers in the Past Four Years (Post)
- Speeding Drivers Terrorize Residents of 72nd Avenue in Forest Hills (QChron)
- Bar Brawl Morphs Into Vehicular Assault in Jamaica (News)
- How Many People Would Ride a Ferry to LaGuardia? (QChron)
- Tour the MTA’s Next-Gen Subway Car Prototype With WNYC
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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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