Today’s Headlines
Streetsblog NYC will be on an abbreviated schedule in observance of Presidents' Day.
By
Ben Fried
8:54 AM EST on February 20, 2017
- Can’t Say It Enough: The Port Authority’s Airport Rail Projects Stink (Crain’s)
- New Midtown Bus Terminal a Top Priority for Christie Challenger Phil Murphy (Politico)
- MTA Will Extend Q52 to the Densest Part of the Rockaways (QChron)
- QChron Files a Dispatch From DOT’s Transit Planning Workshop in Ridgewood
- Yellow Cab Revenue Fell 25 Percent in Four Years (Crain’s)
- TA, Families for Safe Streets, and the Origins of Vision Zero in NYC (Governing)
- If Not for Cameras, Enforcement of the Speed Limit Would Be Almost Nonexistent (Post)
- Minivan Driver Crashes Into Store on Grand Concourse, Injuring One; No Summons (News)
- Brooklyn CB 6 Committee Didn’t Muster a Majority to Vote for the Amity Street Wiggle (Bklyner)
- Paging DDC: Bay Ridge Step Street Falling Apart (Bklyn Paper)
Streetsblog NYC will be on an abbreviated schedule in observance of Presidents’ Day.
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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