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Pedestrian safety

SEE IT: TransAlt Video Says You Shouldn’t Have To Be An Olympian Just to Live in NYC

Educated at the Sorbonne and the Yale School of Drama, Gersh Kuntzman is obviously not the person being described here. We&#8217;re talking about tabloid legend Gersh Kuntzman, who 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. Email Gersh at <a href="mailto:gersh@streetsblog.org">gersh@streetsblog.org</a>

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Gersh Kuntzman

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NYPD

Report: 70 Percent of City Drivers are Speeding (Maybe Even Right Now)

Jesse Coburn is Streetsblog&#8217;s investigative reporter. His reporting has received a Sigma Award, a Casey Feldman Award, and awards from the Silurians Press Club and the Overseas Press Club Foundation. Previously he was a reporter at Newsday and an editor at ARCH+. He’s also written for the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, Harper’s, Cabinet and other publications. Jesse is is on Twitter at <a href="//twitter.com/jesse_coburn">@jesse_coburn</a>. His email address is <a href="mailto:jesse@streetsblog.org">jesse@streetsblog.org</a>.

Jesse Coburn

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Carnage

Number of SUVs and Other Big Cars is Up 21% in NYC

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

Eve Kessler

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Aggressive Driving

LATEST LOBBYING: Advocates Pushing Raft of New Street-Safety Bills in Albany

Tali Farhadian Weinstein

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OPINION: Treat Traffic Violence as an Epidemic

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Julianne Cuba

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City Council

Effort to Reduce NYPD Crash Role May End Up Expanding It

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Bicycling

What’s a ‘Bike Boulevard’? For Now, Mayor de Blasio Won’t Say, But Planners are Eager to Help

Car crashes

Poll: Too Many Are Skeptical of Vision Zero

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Report: City’s Failure to Add Bike Parking Hurts Businesses, Costs Lives, Increases Theft and Reduces Cycling

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Dave Colon

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Bus Rapid Transit

A Fairer, Safer City? Here’s the Agenda from Top Transportation Advocacy Groups