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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

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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