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
DOT to Beautify Another Meatpacking District Street
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The current overly wide 10th Avenue terminus will be transformed with shared-street markings, tables, chairs, a bike lane and new pedestrian zones and crosswalks to get walkers from the area around the Whitney Museum to the Hudson River Greenway.
UPDATE: Restler Bill to Allow Residents to Ticket Dangerous Drivers Gaining Steam
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A City Council bill that advocates believe will unleash a nicely remunerated civilian army against drivers who recklessly block roadways and bike lanes is looking likely to move ahead.
Pedestrian Seriously Injured in Park Slope Crash as Bloody Year Continues
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A pedestrian was critically injured when the 21-year-old driver of a massive Ford van slammed into him in Park Slope — and the latest analysis of crash data shows that such injuries remain all too common.
Adams at the Crossroads: Mayor Touts Intersection Fixes As Road Violence Crisis Continues
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Mayor Adams says his administration has completed design improvements at more than 1,200 intersections. Let's dive in.
Friday’s Headlines: The Treachery of Images Edition
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A rare first-person piece about a long bike ride. Plus other news.
The Blue Highway: City EDC Takes a Major Step Forward for Cleaner Freight
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To paraphrase the old song: Four loaded pallets of beer on the boat, four loaded pallets of beer — if somebody somewhere would just build a pier ... more and more pallets of beer on the boat.
SEE IT: Red-Light-Running Driver Causes Horrific Crash on Canal Street
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"No! Nooo! Aaahhhh!" Those are the horrifying utterances made by a Manhattan cyclist a split second before he was hit by a driver on Canal Street last week.
Massive Show of Support from Restaurant and Design Pros for a DOT-Led Open Restaurant Program
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The list of supporters is like a Who's Who of the overlapping worlds of architecture, urban planning, public space management, design and livable streets advocacy.
Job Opening of the Day: Director of Open Restaurants at DOT (Wait, at DOT?!)
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Well, at least one agency thinks it's going to be running the Open Restaurant program.
One Down, Thousands to Go: Cops Bust A Really Bad Driver For Doing Less-Dangerous Stupid Thing
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Police in Bay Ridge collared a reckless driver who was, in the words of the local Council member, "driving like an asshole" and doing donuts on Shore Road — but the seizure of the car only reveals the weakness in the larger system of getting dangerous drivers off the road.
Federal Safety Administrator: Let’s Legalize the ‘Idaho Stop’
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One of the Biden Administration’s top road safety officials has come out in favor of legalizing the so-called “Idaho stop,” which allows cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as mere stops signs.
Pedestrian Hit Near Citi Field on a Game Day Has Died of His Injuries
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A pedestrian who was hit just a block from Citi Field a few hours before an August Mets home game by a reckless driver has died of his injuries — the latest crash around the athletic danger zone.