Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:33 AM EST on January 24, 2018
- NYPD Confirms Workers Are Bearing the Brunt of de Blasio’s Pointless E-Bike Crackdown (Rag)
- Cuomo Is Still Playing Games With the Subway (Politico, News, NYT)
- Will Byford Reform the MTA’s Muddled Performance Metrics? (Voice)
- American Prospect: Gateway Is Not a “Nice-to-Have Novelty”
- De Blasio and Other Mayors to Waste Afternoon in DC (NY1)
- Someone Tell Andrew Lanza Most New Yorkers Already Pay to Get Around (NY1)
- DOT and MTA Will Hold L Shutdown Open House Tonight (NY1)
- Brooklyn Pols Are Stressing Out Over the BQE (Bklyn Paper)
- School Bus Drivers Hit Child, Woman in Separate Crashes in Jamaica and Harlem (NY1, News)
- USPS Driver Runs Over Three People in Murray Hill Crosswalk (News, Post)
- SI Driver Rips Car in Half and Narrowly Misses Bystanders — No Charges (Advance 1, 2; WNBC)
- The Never Ending Struggle for Free Auto Storage in NYC (WCBS)
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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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