streetsblog-nyc-logo-alt

streetsblog-nyc-logo-dark

lede_post_card_default

lede_post_card_stacked

lede_post_card_featured_post

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero

lede_post_card_featured_posts_sidebar

lede_post_card_highlighted_post

lede_post_card_horizontal_a

lede_post_card_horizontal_c

lede_post_card_related_post

lede_article_featured_16x9

lede_article_featured_3x2

lede_article_featured_flexible

lede_article_content

lede_article_content_wide_width

lede_article_content_full_width

lede_byline_avatar_post_card

lede_byline_avatar_highlight

lede_profile_coral_avatar

lede_logo

lede_logo_banner

lede_logo_footer_banner

lede_logo_simple_header

lede_sponsorship_logo

lede_sponsorship_logo_river_card

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card_logo

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card

Awesome Categories

Streetsblog Basics

Streetsblog Network

Top Categories

Covering the fight for sustainable cities

streetsblog-nyc-logo

Streetsblog New York City

Donate to Streetsblog

SB NYC Initials 16-9 crop

Support Streetsblog

David was Streetsblog&#8217;s do-it-all New York City beat reporter from 2015 to 2019. He returned as deputy editor in 2023 after a three-year stint at the New York Post.

t6qq0j5pf-u6ra8egdr-a2a43d1daba6-512

David Meyer

sershen-scene

Elderly & Disabled

Senior Who Killed Pedestrian Madeline Sershen Pleads Guilty

Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York&#8217;s dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.

Brad Aaron

135-1_Liberty_Ave_-_Google_Maps

Carnage

Motorist Who Killed Senior in Queens Crosswalk Pleads to Violating Victim’s Right of Way

Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.

Ben Fried

IMG_20170707_141527691

Bicycling

Confirmed: The DMV and NYPD Are Cheating Cyclists Again

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>.

gersh headshot horizontal square

Gersh Kuntzman

dmv protest 1

Queens Residents Demand Retests for Older Drivers After 88-Year-Old Kills Teen In Whitestone

88-Year-Old Driver Runs Red, Kills Madeline Sershen, 17, in Utopia Parkway Crosswalk

bruns-1

Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez Indicts Driver Who Killed Two Kids on 9th Street for Manslaughter

Has DMV Relapsed Into Its Old Habit of Ripping Off Cyclists?

ampuero-scene-1

86-Year-Old Driver Kills Giovanni Ampuero, 9, in Queens Crosswalk

ps-1

When We Treat Driving as a Fundamental Right, People Lose Their Lives

16187034268_f3bdae2165_z

Andrew Cuomo

People Are Dying Because Cuomo’s Leaderless DMV Is Failing to Regulate Dangerous Motorists

New York State DMV