Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:47 AM EST on December 19, 2017
- Truck Driver Kills Delivery Cyclist in Maspeth and Gets a Preemptive Defense From NYPD (News)
- Man Struck By NYPD SUV Driver Sues City for Lying in Police Report (News)
- Senate Dems Urge Cuomo to Enact “Fair and Sustainable” Revenue Source for MTA (News)
- Sorry, Gateway — Trump Admin Making Up Rules for Federal Transit Funding on the Fly (Crain’s)
- De Blasio Kills Bill to Expand Street Vendor Permits (Crain’s, Post, News)
- MTA Adds Newer, Longer Subway Cars to the C Train (Post, AMNY)
- Carol Kellerman: We Need a Full Accounting of What It Will Take to Fix the Subways (Crain’s)
- Shuttering All Overnight Subway Service vs. Temporary Line-By-Line Closures (WNYC)
- More Coverage of Yesterday’s Rally Against the Mayor’s E-Bike Crackdown (AMNY, WNYC)
- Times Square Motor Rampager Richard Rojas Pleads Insanity (Post)
- Joe Addabbo, Anti-Transit Parking-Obsessed Micromanager (TL)
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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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