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Ben Fried
8:55 AM EDT on March 27, 2017
- City Report: Pedestrian Deaths More Prevalent on Streets in Low-Income NYC Neighborhoods (AMNY)
- Was the Driver Who Killed Skylar Perkins Distracted By a Device? (Post)
- NYPD Has Arrested a Man for the Hit-and-Run Killing of Giovanni Nin (Post)
- GOP Mayoral Candidate Paul Massey Was Busted for Driving Drunk in 2010 (News)
- Amtrak Derailment at Penn Station Threw Friday Commuter Rail Service Into Chaos (DNA 1, 2)
- City Council Focusing on Citi Bike Expansion, Fair Fares This Week (AMNY)
- Meanwhile, Vincent Gentile Mines Motorist Resentment (Bklyn Paper)
- Queens Chronicle Roots for Trump to Deprive NYC of Funds for Woodhaven SBS
- Gothamist: No, We Don’t Need Pedestrian Signals Right at Eye Level
- Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Click on This Brooklyn Paper Bike Lane Content
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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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