streetsblog-nyc-logo-alt

streetsblog-nyc-logo-dark

lede_post_card_default

lede_post_card_stacked

lede_post_card_featured_post

lede_post_card_featured_post_3:2

lede_post_card_featured_post_1:1

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero_3:2

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero_1:1

lede_post_card_featured_posts_sidebar

lede_post_card_highlighted_post

lede_post_card_horizontal_a

lede_post_card_horizontal_c

lede_post_card_related_post

lede_post_card_square

lede_article_featured_16x9

lede_article_featured_16x9_full_width

lede_article_featured_3x2

lede_article_featured_3x2_full_width

lede_article_featured_1x1

lede_article_featured_1x1_full_width

lede_article_featured_flexible

lede_article_featured_flexible_full_width

lede_article_content

lede_article_content_wide_width

lede_article_content_full_width

lede_byline_avatar_post_card

lede_byline_avatar_highlight

lede_profile_coral_avatar

lede_logo

lede_logo_banner

lede_logo_footer_banner

lede_logo_simple_header

lede_sponsorship_logo

lede_sponsorship_logo_river_card

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card_logo

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card

Awesome Categories

Streetsblog Basics

Streetsblog Network

Top Categories

Covering the fight for sustainable cities

streetsblog-nyc-logo

Streetsblog New York City

Donate to Streetsblog

SB NYC Initials 16-9 crop

Support Streetsblog

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>.

gersh headshot horizontal square

Gersh Kuntzman

car upside down

Carnage

Arrests of Drunk Drivers Are Falling Even as Crashes are Historically High: Report

police-tape-crime-scene 640 crop

Cops Say They Have Nabbed ‘Scooter’ Rider Who Killed Actor on UWS

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

Eve Kessler

NO_SOCIAL_DISTANCE on Queensboro Bridge

Bicycling

OPINION: Build the Queensboro Bridge Pedestrian Path Now!

Henry Beers Shenk

Borkot Ullah Vigil

Delivery and Immigrant Communities Protest Death of Working Cyclist During Police Chase

2444228592_93719b3a77_o-e1627491748313

BREAKING: National ‘Vision Zero’ Resolution Introduced

Carpocalypse Now 3

Wednesday’s Headlines: ‘Carpocalypse Now’ Edition

Christopher Robbins

SUV-crash-3-20

Car crashes

Study: America’s SUV Spree Spurred Pedestrian-Death Surge

MORE CARNAGE: Motorist Kills Man on Long Island Expressway in Queens

This piece was the work of the Streetsblog staff.

Round SB NYC Stroke-1080px

Streetsblog

Pedestrians cross a congestion Canal Street.

IMG_1042

Monday’s Headlines: Journalism Drops the Ball Edition

fatal-crash-bk-2

UPDATED: Truck Driver Kills E-Scooter Rider in Brooklyn