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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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Gersh Kuntzman

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Carnage

USPS Truck Driver Charged with Misdemeanor for Killing Upper West Sider Jeffrey Williamson

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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DOT Wants Meeting with State DMV Head to Get Killer Drivers Off the Road 

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Cy Vance

Powerful Manhattan Pol Says He Did Not Break State Law When He Doored Cyclist* And Fled^

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Brad Lander

EXCLUSIVE: Reckless Driver Who Killed Baby Apolline Took Driver ‘Accountability’ Course — But It Didn’t Change a Thing

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Who Failed Baby Apolline? Literally Everyone in Multiple Agencies in All Three Branches of Government

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Car Culture

Manhattan DA Drops Charges Against Reckless Driver Who Totaled Luxury Car

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Effort to Give DOT Crash Investigation Unit Ends Up Tilting Toward Expanding NYPD’s Role

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ANALYSIS: Is Jailing Killer Drivers the Only Way Forward for Street Safety?

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Car crashes

OPINION: The Manhattan DA Must Put Muscle Into Traffic Safety

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Bicycle Safety

‘Honest Mistake’? Brooklyn DA Detective Offers Poor Excuse for the Kind of Illegal Parking that Kills Cyclists