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<p>Kevin Duggan joined Streetsblog in October, 2022, after covering transportation for amNY. Duggan has been reporting on New York since 2018, starting at Vince DiMiceli’s Brooklyn Paper, where he covered southern Brooklyn neighborhoods and, later, Brownstone Brooklyn. He is on Bluesky at <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/kevinduggan.bsky.social">@kevinduggan.bsky.social</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>.</p>


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<p>Jake Berman is a cartographer, historian, and the author of <a href="https://www.lostsubways.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Lost Subways of North America</em></a>. His work has been featured in the New Yorker, Vice, Atlas Obscura, and the Guardian. A native of San Francisco, he now lives in Brooklyn.</p>


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<p><span style="color: #000000"><a href="https://completegeorge.org/contact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://completegeorge.org/contact/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1749298974026000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1-DxkelE8HcdZdFGa-83tl">Neile Weissman</a> heads up <a href="https://completegeorge.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://completegeorge.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1749298974026000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2jKtT_ZQ-mffCKn3hiBRzX">Complete George</a>, which was formed in 2013 to advocate for modern bikeways across the George Washington Bridge. We continue to call for laws and infrastructure that support the growth of cycling.</span></p>


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<p>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>.</p>


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<p>Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.</p>
<p>Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.</p>


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