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Before joining Streetsblog, Sophia Lebowitz was a filmmaker and journalist covering transportation and culture in New York City.

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Sophia Lebowitz

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E-Bike Battery Swap Hub Backed by Con Edison Opens At Ebbets Field Apartments

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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MTA To Finally Untangle Notorious Brooklyn Subway Pinch Point

Rafe Herzfeld is a 7th grade student at Luria Academy in Prospect Heights. He bikes everywhere: to school daily, to his pottery classes, to his friend&#8217;s houses, and to Prospect Park for his flag football games. He loves the new protected Bedford Ave. bike lane and thinks the city needs to move faster in setting up more protected bike lanes like it throughout Brooklyn.

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Rafe Herzfeld

Baruch Herzfeld lives in Crown Heights and is a lifelong New Yorker. He and his wife have four children, including six-year-old triplets. He currently works at Popwheels, a company he co-founded, which is building a safe e-bike battery swap network throughout New York City.

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Mythbusting: Don’t Assume Orthodox Jews Only Drive — We Want Bike Lanes, Too

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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Bed-Stuy

Monday’s Headlines: Better Bedford Avenue Edition

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Activists Want a Protected Bike Lane on an Unsafe Stretch of Bedford Avenue

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Bicycle Infrastructure

DOT Commissioner Says She Feels Comfortable Riding on Unprotected Roads, But Newbie Cyclists Don’t

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Parking Over Bus Lanes? In One Brooklyn District, Pols Bow to Drivers

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City Fails Brooklyn Bus Riders With Giveaway to Car-Driving Minority

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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