Gersh Kuntzman
Educated at the Sorbonne and the Yale School of Drama, Gersh Kuntzman is obviously not the person being described here. We're talking about tabloid legend Gersh Kuntzman, who has been with New York newspapers since 1989, including stints at the New York Daily News, the Post, the Brooklyn Paper and even a cup of coffee with the Times. He's also the writer and producer of "Murder at the Food Coop," which was a hit at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2016, and “SUV: The Musical” in 2007. Email Gersh at gersh@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
Drivers, Pedestrians are Already Trashing the Brooklyn Bridge Bike Path
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The newly opened Brooklyn Bridge bike path is being defiled with garbage that's either cascading down from the pedestrian path or tossed by drivers over the short fence from the car lanes. But DOT is on it!
Thursday’s Headlines: Chewing the Fat with Marty Edition
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When a guy sends you hate mail, but offers to take you to a Mets game, you listen. Plus other news.
SOLVED: City Must Reduce Carmaggedon By Eliminating Free Parking, Re-Imagining Public Space
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The city must eliminate free parking, dramatically reduce roadway space for cars, and transform the Department of Transportation into a broader "public space management" agency in order to make New York City truly livable and climate resilient, a new report argues.
ANALYSIS: DOT Plan for 'Gold Standard' 34th Ave. Open Street is Definitely Not a 'Linear Park'
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But it does hold the promise of reducing thru-traffic with 24-7 diverters, plazas, shared space and other treatments.
Monday’s Headlines: How Do You Sleep Edition
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The death of Jose Ramos in East New York sends our editor back to his old Russian dictionary to get the perfect idiom to express our outrage about the city's failure. Plus other news.
SAFETY THIRD: Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Deaf Man on Notorious Speedway that DOT Failed to Fix
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A Brooklyn man was killed by a hit-and-run driver on a notoriously dangerous stretch of Atlantic Avenue in East New York on Friday night — a fatal crash that presents real-time evidence of the incompetence and apathy of city officials in keeping its most vulnerable residents safe.
Horrific Crash in Queens as Truck Driver Runs Red Light and Injures Pedestrian
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A pedestrian was injured, perhaps severely, at a notoriously dangerous Queens intersection by a milk truck driver who ran a red light — the latest victim in a year that has created more victims than any previous year in the de Blasio administration's two terms.
PLATEGATE: Out-of-State Car Owners Owe City $300M in Unpaid Fines
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Owners of out-of-state cars owe the city more than a quarter-of-a-billion dollars in fines and fees on the millions of unpaid parking and moving violation tickets that Streetsblog reported on earlier in the week.
Out-Of-State Drivers are Just The Worst … At Paying Their NYC Summonses
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Drivers of cars with out-of-state plates owe the city tens of millions of dollars on more than 3.5 million unpaid parking and moving violation summonses since 2016 alone, a Streetsblog investigation of city data has discovered.
Wednesday’s Headlines: Breaking the Car Culture at the New York Times Edition
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Look, our editor is still angry about the New York Times's coverage of mobility in the city that gives the paper its name, but only intermittently commands its attention. So he's going to go off a bit before getting to the headlines. Thanks for your patience.
IT’S OVER: State’s Highest Court Sets Aside Last Challenges to City’s ‘Right of Way’ Law
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It turns out it IS a crime to drive with negligence and then hit someone with your car.
E-Cyclist Rider Killed on Roadway that Once Had a Protected Bike Lane … Until DOT Downgraded It
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A teenager in a 4,000-pound Chevy pickup truck driving the wrong way on a dangerous Queens overpass struck and killed an e-bike rider who was in a bike lane that the city had once built as a "protected" bike lane, but then downgraded to mere paint after drivers destroyed all the flex-posts that once secured the lane.