Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:55 AM EST on February 5, 2018
- Driver Kills Basid Miah, 23, on Conduit Boulevard in East New York, No Charges Expected (News)
- Speeding Drunk Driver Causes Five-Car Crash on Bronx Park East, Killing Shiquan Dunn, 31 (News)
- The Times Is Appalled Cuomo and de Blasio Haven’t United to Fix the Subways
- Greg David: NYC Business Leaders Don’t Care About the Transit System Like They Used To (Crain’s)
- No Time Like the L Train Shutdown to Make the Union Square Subway Station Fully Accessible (Crain’s)
- What Happens When Station Agents Leave Their Booths and Work Amongst the Riders? (NYT)
- 14 Black Pastors Urge Cuomo to Equalize Fees on Uber and Yellow Taxis (News)
- Daily News Wants Your Stories of Terrible Transit and Gridlocked Streets
- The Video of This Group Bike Ride Doesn’t Jibe With the “Cycling Mob” Headlines (NBC, News)
- Parents at PS172 Say the Speedway Gas Station in Sunset Park Is a Deathtrap (Bklyn Paper)
- Send a Message That Cops Aren’t Above the Law — End Placard Abuse (Slate)
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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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