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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&#8217;s dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.

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Brooklyn

80-Year-Old Pedestrian Killed in Sheepshead Bay; No Charges Filed

Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.
Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.

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Next Week: Fourth Avenue Task Force Talks Transportation

Bus Bulbs Will Boost Nostrand Avenue Select Bus Service

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Bicycling

Even Critics of Prospect Park West Lane Don’t Buy the “Unsafe” Argument

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Doug Gordon is the co-host of <a href="https://thewaroncars.org/">The War on Cars</a> podcast and the co-author of <a href="https://www.lifeaftercars.com/">Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile</a>,” coming in October 2025 from Thesis, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

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Doug Gordon

The Spaghetti-on-the-Wall Strategy

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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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Will NYPD Enforce Cycling the Effective Way or the Useless Way?