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Car-Free Streets

Tuesday’s Headlines: History is Bunk Edition

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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Fort Greene

SEE IT: Video Emerges of Bike Getting Vandalized — As Witnesses Do Nothing!

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Clinton Hill

Op-Ed: Pro-Development Message Downplays Gentrification Threat

Email Eve Kessler at <a href="mailto:eve@streetsblog.org">eve@streetsblog.org</a>

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Op-Ed: Density Is the Friend of Safe Streets and Transit

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Carnage

Op-Ed: More Residential Loading Zones Now!

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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Bicycling

The Five Stupidest Things Said at Fort Greene’s Town Hall to Protest the City’s ‘War On Cars’

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Antonio Reynoso

DOT: We Are NOT Backing Down on Neighborhood Loading Zones!

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New York is Really Awesome When the Rich People Leave and Take their Cars on Vacation

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Flushing Avenue Will Remain A Hell on Wheels For Cyclists Until April

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City Planning Minor Tweak to Vanderbilt Avenue, a Major Cycling Thoroughfare [Updated]