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Opinion: After Revel’s Retreat, Whither the Motorcycle in NYC?

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STREET THIEVES: NYPD Seizes Park Paths, Hindering Access to Mayor de Blasio’s Ferry for No Reason

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Street Safety

Op-Ed: Courting Death on the Third Avenue Speedway

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Op-Ed: Let’s Build a Network of ‘Quiet Streets’

Philip Plotch, PhD is the principal researcher at the Eno Center for Transportation. He has been a transportation planner, director of World Trade Center Redevelopment, political science professor, director of a master of public administration program, and a U.S. Fulbright Scholar. He is also the author of three highly acclaimed books: Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject, Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York, and Mobilizing the Metropolis: How the Port Authority Built New York.

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Philip Plotch

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Op-Ed: The Second Avenue Subway’s Lessons for American Transit

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Ex-Parks Commissioner: I Won’t Bike in Central Park Anymore

Charles Komanoff is a national expert on congestion pricing and traffic modeling, and is the former head of Transportation Alternatives. He is a longtime Streetsblog contributor. Reach him at <a href="mailto:komanoff@gmail.com">komanoff@gmail.com</a>.

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Charles Komanoff

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Congestion Pricing

KOMANOFF: Congestion Pricing Will NOT Fill Upper Manhattan With Suburbanites Cruising for Parking

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

NYPD CPR

Pedestrian Killed by SUV Driver Trying to Park on Upper East Side

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Today’s Edition of “S#!t We Put Up With Every F@&%ing Day”

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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