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By Gersh Kuntzman

7:12 AM EST on December 6, 2018

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Now, the news:

The Times’s latest report on global warming specifically blames a chief offender: drivers.
Want to save the subway? Pot to the rescue! (NY Post, NYT)
So much for learning about a clean undercarriage on the dirty underground. (NYDN)
Twitter suspends an MTA parody account for, apparently, being too accurate. (NYDN)
New Jersey transit riders will get their own mini L-pocalypse. (NYDN, WSJ, NY Post)
The Times says Bleecker Street is doing great. Remind those pro-parking people in Queens that there’s no parking along a long stretch of Bleecker most of the day. People shop by bike and foot, you know.
An eloquent Families for Safe Streets member won a settlement in his case. (NY Post)
And finally, the gang that couldn’t shoot straight has found work in Coney Island (NY Post)

Gersh Kuntzman

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'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. He also writes the Cycle of Rage column, which is archived here.

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