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.

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Mike Bloomberg — clearly he's been listening to Streetsblog. Photo: Politicker

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Bloomberg’s Infrastructure Plan: Save Lives, Boost Transit, Stop Building Roads

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 22, 2020 | No Comments

Would-be president Mike Bloomberg would focus mostly on maintaining roads and bridges we already have, rather than building new ones, while also investing three times more money in transit.

Rep. Adriano Espaillat at the moment in his speech on Monday when he turned a larger fight against gentrification into a battle against bike lanes. Photo: NY1

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Espaillat Says He Supports Bike Lanes, Despite Monday’s Racially Charged Rant

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 21, 2020 | No Comments

The upper Manhattan Congressman tells Streetsblog that he only opposed the Dyckman Street bike lane because it was poorly designed. Sure, and there's a bridge in someone else's district he'd love to sell us.

MTA Senior Vice President Craig Cipriano offered reporters a briefing on the agency's Queens bus redesign. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

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Buses Work Best on Car-Free Streets, MTA Data Shows

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 20, 2020 | No Comments

Bus lane cameras are speeding up service, but new MTA data ended up emphasizing the need to get cars out of the way of buses entirely.

"Jaywalking" — everyone does it. So why are the vast majority of tickets written to blacks and Hispanics?

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Pols to NYPD: Stop Racist ‘Jaywalking’ Tickets

By Gersh Kuntzman and Martin Samoylov | Jan 20, 2020 | No Comments

New York City's political establishment has spoken: The NYPD must end its racist enforcement of "jaywalking."

This was the scene on Third Street at Prospect Park West at around 4:15 p.m. on Monday — an injured cyclist who is long gone by the time cops show up. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

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CYCLE OF RAGE: Crash Response Reveals that Cops Are Just So Badly Trained

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 15, 2020 | No Comments

More evidence that police officers are poorly trained and disinclined to see drivers as a culprit in the criminal or civil offense of injuring or killing someone with a motor vehicle.

Some play street! It's filled with teachers' cars. Photo: Doug Gordon

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PLACARD CLASS WARFARE: Brooklyn ‘Play Street’ Scrapped So Teachers Can Park

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 15, 2020 | No Comments

Look out, kids — teacher's gotta get to her parking space!

A montage of mayhem — with the solution in the center.

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City Not Using Camera Tickets to Crack Down on Reckless Cabbies

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 10, 2020 | No Comments

The Taxi and Limousine Commission claims it does not have the authority to take cabbies off the road for multiple camera-issued speeding tickets. But others say it does.

The plan would fix this disaster — where Kent Avenue becomes Franklin Street in Brooklyn, and cyclists lose their protection. Photo: Google

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City Safety Plan for Queens-Bound Cyclists: A Wrong-Way Detour

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 10, 2020 | No Comments

The big fix for Kent Avenue and Franklin Street in Greenpoint is not so big and not such a fix.

A sensor could have alerted the driver of this massive cement truck that the woman was right in front of it.

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The Ongoing Shame of How the NYPD Downplays Road Violence to Shield Drivers

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 8, 2020 | No Comments

The death of Judith Wieder once again highlights a major failure of the NYPD to properly inform the public — but only because the death was caught on video.

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