Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:54 AM EDT on April 13, 2018
- Cuomo’s Not About to Stop Extorting Straphangers (Gotham Gazette)
- NYPD Halts Subway for 90 Minutes to Investigate Pepper-Spraying (AMNY; News; Post 1, 2)
- … And That Was Just One Factor in Yesterday’s Morning Meltdown (Voice)
- Extra Extra: Andrew Cuomo Is Responsible for the Subway (News)
- Liz Krueger: Albany’s Gotta Finish the Job and Get Congestion Pricing Done (Crain’s)
- LIRR President Patrick Nowakowski Is Out (WNYC); Phil Eng In (Post)
- More on the L Train Bike Train From NY1 and PIX
- Seasonal Police Crackdowns on Reckless Driving: Not Vision Zero! (NY1)
- NYPD Releases Video of Dorothy Parker’s Hit-and-Run Killer (AMNY)
- How Will Jeff Klein Legislate Without His Publicly Funded SUV? (Post)
- When the Post Comes Out Against It, You Know It’s the Right Thing to Do (1, 2)
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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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