Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:54 AM EST on December 14, 2017
- Keep Digging, Marty (NYT, Bklyn Reporter, Voice)
- Golden Can’t Keep His Story Straight on Unpaid Tickets, Either (Post, WNYC)
- Cuomo Holds Straphangers Hostage by Shortchanging Subway Work (News)
- More Coverage of L Shutdown Plan: NYT, 2AS, AMNY, Post, News
- Silly Academics! Everyone Knows Bikes Kill Commerce (Patch)
- Amtrak Releases App to Guide People Through Penn Station (NYT)
- Family Devastated by Judge’s Plea Deal With Killer Carjacker (Post, News)
- Motorist Runs Over Teenager in Jamaica and Flees (NY1, News)
- Watch Drivers Slalom Past DOT’s New Greeley Ave. Traffic Circles (Advance)
- Welcome to Omaha. Please Walk Safely. (ABC)
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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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