Today’s Headlines
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Brad Aaron
8:43 AM EDT on March 23, 2018
- NYPD Should Have Flagged Dorothy Bruns as Unfit to Drive After Hit-and-Run 6 Months Ago (News)
- No Charges After Driver Backs Into and Kills Lucille Raphael, 75, in Flatlands (BK Paper, Bklyner)
- Cuomo Blows Off Chance to Speak Up for Safer NYC Streets (AMNY)
- Census Data Show Population Gains in All Boroughs Since 2010 (NYT)
- City Council Approves Funds for Investigation Unit and Other New Staff (NYT)
- House Passes Budget With $540M for Gateway (NY1)
- Project to Shore Up the A Line Will Disrupt Rockaways Service for Months (NY1)
- CB 8, Riverdale Press Exasperated by DOT’s Insistence on a Safer Broadway
- DOT Finally Returns Crosswalks to West End Avenue, But Not 96th Street (Rag)
- Looks Like a Certain Ex-Pol Has a Case of Parking Entitlement Syndrome (Advance, News)
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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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