Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:31 AM EDT on June 5, 2018
- LIRR and Metro-North Could Do So Much More for NYC Residents (City Limits)
- Growing Number of People Violently Unleash Their Subway Frustrations on MTA Workers (Post)
- Bradley Tusk: New York Governors Lack Political Incentive to Fix the MTA (Observer)
- Ben Kabak: “The Governor Doesn’t Appreciate the Transit System”
- If Only There Was Some Slack in Trans-Hudson Transit to Absorb Disenchanted NJ Car Commuters (NYT)
- DOT’s Pinch Points in Prospect Park Have Already Claimed a Victim (Bklyn Paper)
- How Much Are Gene Freidman’s Taxi Medallions Worth in 2018? Find Out Next Week! (Crain’s)
- Daily News: Bail Out Cab Medallion Driver-Owners, Not “Big-Money Speculators”
- Five Injured in Multi-Car Crash in Whitestone Last Week (TL)
- Raves for the New Fowler Square Plaza (Bklyn Paper)
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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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