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Jon Orcutt

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Bicycle Infrastructure

Op-Ed: Paint The Bike Lane, Dammit, Before Someone Dies!

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.

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David Meyer

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Bicycling

DOT Will Replace East Village ‘Mixing Zones’ With Semi-Protected Intersections

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Corey Johnson’s ‘Master Plan’: 50 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes Per Year — And A Lot More

Isaac Blasenstein

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No Controversy as Park Slope Panel Backs Flatbush Ave. Bike Lane

Dave Colon is a reporter from Long Beach, a barrier island off of the coast of Long Island that you can bike to from the city. It’s a real nice ride.  He’s previously been the editor of Brokelyn, a reporter at Gothamist, a freelance reporter and delivered freshly baked bread by bike.

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Dave Colon

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Bay Ridge

DOT to Bay Ridge: You Get Unsafe Bike Lanes Because We Don’t Want to Remove Parking

Jessie Singer/Transportation Alternatives

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Citi Bike

Op-Ed: Rise of the Micro-Machines — How We Take Back the Streets

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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Bike Lanes

DOT’S CPW PBL is OTW (LOL?)

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Carnage

Activists to DOT: ‘This Smashed Tomato Could Be My Head!’

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Antonio Reynoso

De Blasio Announces Grand Street Bike Lanes Will Stay, Ending L-Train Uncertainty

Clarence Eckerson Jr. is the Director of Video Production for NYCSR&#8217;s StreetFilms and producer of bikeTV. He loves the color purple, chocolate chip cookies, and enjoys walking, biking, and taking transit. He has never owned a driver&#8217;s license.

Clarence Eckerson Jr.

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Streetfilms Wayback Machine: When Union Square Sucked (Before DOT Fixed It!)

Protected Bike Lanes