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By
Ben Fried
8:54 AM EDT on May 7, 2018
- Sanitation Salvage Driver Lied About Killing a Man, Faced No Charges, Then Killed Again (ProPublica)
- Why Do Major MTA Contractors Consistently Fall So Far Behind Schedule? (NYT)
- The Jig Is Up for de Blasio’s Ferry Subsidies (News, NY Mag, AMNY)
- NYC Schools Surrounded by Minefields of Dangerous Streets (Post)
- Advocates Head to Albany This Week to Tell Legislators That Speed Cameras Save Lives (WNYC)
- Parks Department’s Greenway Construction Delays Have Consequences (Post)
- City Breaks Ground on Lackluster Redesign of Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills (Patch)
- No Accessibility Upgrades Coming Out of Months-Long Shutdown of 72nd Street B/C Station (NY1)
- Four Injured in Two-Car Crash in Canarsie Sunday (News)
- State Senate Candidate Jessica Ramos Running Against Jose Peralta as an MTA Watchdog (NBC)
- Slate Surveys the “Preposterously Corrupt” Landscape of NYC Parking Placards
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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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