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Opinion: Citi Bike? Outdoor Restaurants? We Can Have Both — Just Limit the Cars!

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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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State Pol: Let’s Legalize Drinking in Public

Shabazz is the founder and CEO of Oonee. You can find him on BlueSky <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/shabazzstuart.bsky.social">@shabazzstuart.bsky.social</a>

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Op-Ed: It’s Time to Legalize Public Drinking for All New Yorkers

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Janet Liff has been an advocate for complete streets for decades. The first gas crisis and Earth Day in the 1970s left its mark on her. Ever since then, she has favored biking,walking and transit over cars. She has a background in public policy and real estate and serves on the Board of StreetsPAC and is a (public) member of the Manhattan CB2 Traffic and Transportation Committee.

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Post-COVID, A New ‘Office of Public Space Management’ Could Efficiently Fix the Current Mess

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Decision 2020: Who Should Represent the South Bronx in Congress?

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