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Samuel Santaella is a bike and transit activist in Queens who volunteers for Riders Alliance and Transportation Alternatives.

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Samuel Santaella

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Bicycling

Op-Ed: A Tale of (Transporting) Two Families

Email Eve Kessler at <a href="mailto:eve@streetsblog.org">eve@streetsblog.org</a>

Eve Kessler

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Bicycle Infrastructure

Court Swats Away NIMBY Anti-Bike-Path Claim on East Side

Wilfredo Florentino

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Brownsville

Op-Ed: City Must Stop Racially Biased Policing — During COVID and Beyond

Caiti Borruso

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Car-Free Streets

‘Ask the Mayor’ Questioner: I Was Hit By a Driver — And de Blasio Failed Me

Danny Pearlstein is Policy &amp; Communications Director at the Riders Alliance.

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Danny Pearlstein

GOVERNOR CUOMO ANNOUNCES LEGISLATION FOR COMPREHENSIVE E-BIKE AND E-SCOOTER SAFETY MEASURES

Andrew Cuomo

Op-Ed: Governor, Public Transit Doesn’t Need a Billionaire Techie

This piece was the work of the Streetsblog staff.

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Friday’s Headlines: Racial Bias of NYPD Revealed Again Edition

Julianne Cuba joined Streetsblog in February, 2019, after three years covering local news and politics at The Brooklyn Paper. There, she also covered the notoriously reckless private carting industry and hit-and-runs. A 2015 graduate of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism Master’s Program, she now lives in Brooklyn. Julianne is on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/julcuba?lang=en">@julcuba</a>. Email Julianne at <a href="mailto:julianne@streetsblog.org">julianne@streetsblog.org</a>

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Julianne Cuba

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NYPD Didn’t Get The Memo, Shuts Down Open Street in Downtown Brooklyn

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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Gersh Kuntzman

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NYPD’s Racial Bias in ‘Jaywalking’ Tickets Continues into 2020

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Brad Lander

Progressives Worry ‘Open Streets’ Will Become Commercialized And Not Serve Communities in Need

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Thursday’s Headlines: A Second-Day of History Edition

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