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Opinion: ‘Defund NYPD’ Campaign Exposes Divide in Black and Latino Leadership

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

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Opinion: De Blasio’s Unbalanced Budget

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Op-Ed: Making Black Lives Matter in Street Safety

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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The Budget Pain: Mayor’s Fair Fares Cut Falls Heavily on Lower-Income Transit Riders

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Op-Ed: Protests Lay Bare Structural Racism in Mass-Transit Policing

Betsy Plum is executive director of Riders Alliance.

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Op-Ed: More Bus Lanes, Fewer Police Cars!

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A Round and a Roundy: De Blasio’s Cops Did Not De-Escalate

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>