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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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David Paterson

Hayley and Diego’s Law Might Be Enacted By Friday

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Bicycling

Our Waistlines Are Expanding In Sync With Our Car-Dependence

Clarence Eckerson Jr. is the Director of Video Production for NYCSR&#8217;s StreetFilms and producer of bikeTV. He loves the color purple, chocolate chip cookies, and enjoys walking, biking, and taking transit. He has never owned a driver&#8217;s license.

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Car-Free Streets

Copenhagen’s Car-Free Streets and Slow-Speed Zones

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From the Outset, NYPD “Suspected No Criminality” in Death of Max Mendez

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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Data-Driven Traffic Enforcement Saves Lives. NYPD Only Halfway There.

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