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Opinion: How Roundabouts Increase Safety for Vulnerable Road Users

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Talking Headways Podcast: How Walkable Cities Foster Public Health

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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Update: ‘Get Stuff Done’ Mayor Far Behind on his Vow to Fix 1,000 Intersections

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OPINION: Here’s Why We All Need to Imagine a ‘Week Without Driving’

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Slaughter of the Innocents: 9-Year-Old Mowed Down By Reckless Driver

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Hit-and-Run Driver Injures a Kid on His Way Home From School in Coney Island

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Queens Pol: DOT’s Excuses for Queensboro Bridge Safety Delays Are ‘Garbage’

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SEE IT: Streetfilms Takes You to NYC’s All-Too-Rare, Car-Free School Streets

Jesse Coburn was an investigative reporter at Streetsblog from 2021 to 2024. His <a href="https://www.streetsblogprojects.org/ghost-tags-index">series</a> on the black market for temporary license plates led to enacted or proposed laws in three states and won the George Polk Award. The series was also a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. His work has also received awards from IRE, the Overseas Press Club Foundation, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the Deadline Club, the Sigma Awards, and the Silurians Press Club. Coburn now works at ProPublica.

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New Year, Same Dangers: Mayor Adams Has Made Only a Tiny Fraction of School Streets Safer

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As School Returns, Mayor Adams Keeps a Street Safety Tool in the Drawer

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