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Tabloid legend Gersh Kuntzman 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&#8217;s also the writer and producer of &#8220;Murder at the Food Coop,&#8221; which was a hit at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2016, and “SUV: The Musical” in 2007. He also writes the Cycle of Rage column, which is <a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/category/special-features/cycle-of-rage">archived here</a>.

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Larry Penner, Federal Transit Official and Letter Writer, is Dead

Nolan Hicks covered transportation, housing, public health and city agencies in the City Hall bureau for The New York Post from 2018-2024, most recently as the paper&#8217;s Senior Reporter for City Affairs. He previously worked as a City Hall and general assignments at The Austin American-Statesman from 2016-2018, where he uncovered self-dealing by a top aide to the city&#8217;s then-mayor that resulted in a federal investigation and guilty pleas. Before that, he was a reporter at the New York Daily News and the San Antonio Express-News. He joined Streetsblog in January 2025.

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Phil Murphy with a failed $1 million effort to block congestion pricing. Which is about as well as Dr. Evil's $1 million plans worked out.

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BLUNDER ROAD: Garden State has Spent $1M in Failed Bid to Block Congestion Pricing

Before joining Streetsblog, Sophia Lebowitz was a filmmaker and journalist covering transportation and culture in New York City.

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Congestion Pricing Gets Kids To School On Time, Data Shows

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Kevin Duggan joined Streetsblog in October, 2022, after covering transportation for amNY. Duggan has been covering New York since 2018 after getting his masters in journalism from Dublin City University in Ireland. After some freelancing, he landed a job with Vince DiMiceli’s Brooklyn Paper, where he covered southern Brooklyn neighborhoods and, later, Brownstone Brooklyn. He’s on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/kduggan16">@kduggan16</a>. And his email address is <a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/about/staff-board/kevin@streetsblog.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kevin@streetsblog.org</a>.

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Mayor Adams Proposes $4M Per Year to ‘Harden’ Dangerous Intersections

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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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