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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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Cycle of Rage

CYCLE OF RAGE: The Car that Never Moves Yet Endangers Pedestrians (And is of No Concern to the NYPD)

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Street Safety

NYPD’s Lackluster Enforcement Against Reckless Drivers Continued in Second Month of Supposed Crackdown

This piece was the work of the Streetsblog staff.

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NYPD

Wednesday’s Headlines: We FOIL Stuff, Too Edition

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Mayor Says He’ll Act on Reckless Drivers, But Leaves Out the ‘How’

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>

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Julianne Cuba

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EXCLU: Council Transportation Chair’s Car Sped Through School Zones 17 Times in a Year

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Traffic Enforcement

Tuesday’s Headlines: Illegal Parking is Entry Level Corruption Edition

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Support For Camera Enforcement Increases When Put in Racial Justice Context, Study Finds 

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MARCH (PARKING) MADNESS: And the <s>Winner</s> Loser Is…

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Carnage

Report: Forget Last Year — The First Quarter of This Year is The Bloodiest Year Since Vision Zero Began

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CCRB Opens Probe into Police Driver Who Killed Man on Eastern Parkway