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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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TEMP TAG TUESDAY: See How Easy it is to Buy a Fake New Jersey License Plate!

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Friday’s Headlines: Ghost Car Crackdown Edition

Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at Streetsblog. 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. He has also written for the New York Times, Harper’s, Cabinet, the Baltimore Sun, Motherboard, Foreign Policy, Hell Gate, and other publications. Previously he was a reporter at Newsday and an editor at ARCH+. Contact him at jesse@streetsblog.org or on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/jesse_coburn">Twitter</a>.

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Jesse Coburn

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GHOST TAGS: Inside NYC’s Black Market for Temporary License Plates

Monday’s Headlines: A Big Week for Streetsblog Edition

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Wednesday’s Headlines: Vindication Edition

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Cycle of Rage

CYCLE OF RAGE: The Human Cost of ‘Criminal Mischief’

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Data: Unreadable Plates Soared Last Year, Foiling Speed and Red-Light Cameras

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New York State DMV

ROWBACK: State DMV Clarifies How to Rat Out Help Out Your Plate-Defacing Neighbor

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: Driver Who Sicced NYPD on Lawyer Adam White For ‘Criminal Mischief’ on Defaced Plate is Cop-Adjacent

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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