Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:55 AM EDT on April 6, 2018
- Cuomo Never Stops Deflecting Responsibility for the MTA to de Blasio (Politico, News, AMNY, Post)
- Police Didn’t Try to Track Down Driver Who Injured Brandy Williams, Now Two Kids Are Dead (News)
- Thousands March for Justice for Saheed Vassell in Crown Heights (News)
- RPA Breaks Down Where New MTA Revenue Will Go
- DOT Studying Fare and Service Changes to Make LIRR/Metro-North More Useful to New Yorkers (Crain’s)
- MTA: Rockaway Beach Branch Reactivation Study Coming Soon (QChron)
- Daily News: If the BQX Doesn’t “Pay for Itself” Don’t Do It
- Union Turnpike Getting Repaved as the Same Old Dangerous Urban Speedway (QChron)
- DOT Starts to Fix Curb Cut Chaos at Gas Station By Sunset Park School (Bklyn Paper)
- Damned E-Bikes (BxTimes)
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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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