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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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Bicycling

Tonight: Support the New PPW and Stand Up for Safer Streets

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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At CB6 Meeting, PPW Foes Take Stand Against Waving and Smiling

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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New PPW Results: More New Yorkers Use It, Without Clogging the Street

Confirmed: Former DOT Commish Weinshall Wants PPW Bike Lane Gone

Nearly 3,000 Survey Responses Show Brooklyn Wants to Keep PPW Bike Lane

Last Chance to Tell Lander and Levin How You Feel About the New PPW

Former Deputy Mayor Under Dinkins Lobbies City Hall to Kill PPW Bike Lane

Results of the New PPW: Speeding Down Dramatically, Cycling Up Big

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Hundreds Rally in Support of Prospect Park West Bike Lane

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