Gersh Kuntzman
Educated at the Sorbonne and the Yale School of Drama, Gersh Kuntzman is obviously not the person being described here. We'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's also the writer and producer of "Murder at the Food Coop," which was a hit at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2016, and “SUV: The Musical” in 2007. Email Gersh at gersh@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
CASE CLOSED: Another Look at How the NYPD Lies to Protect Placard Corrupted Cops
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The NYPD lied on Monday to cover up the illegal actions of a Housing division cop — the latest of a growing number of incidents involving placard abusing officers and the epidemic of illegally defaced license plates.
CYCLE OF RAGE: The Car that Never Moves Yet Endangers Pedestrians (And is of No Concern to the NYPD)
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There's a broken-down car on Ocean Parkway that has not moved since at least July, 2020. Yet it's only been ticketed three times, despite more than 30 complaints to 311. Oh, and it has an NYPD vest on the dashboard. Herein lies a great yarn.
NYPD’s Lackluster Enforcement Against Reckless Drivers Continued in Second Month of Supposed Crackdown
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Remember that much-ballyhooed crackdown on drivers who fail to yield to pedestrians — the one Streetsblog debunked last month? Well, it's even more debunkable.
34TH AVE. UPDATE: DOT Presents ‘Bold’ Plan for the Permanent Open Street Called ‘Paseo Park’
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The agency said it was motivated primarily by safety and by the higher numbers of pedestrians than vehicles for most of the day.
Mayor Says He’ll Act on Reckless Drivers, But Leaves Out the ‘How’
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HIzzoner said he would use his octopine enforcement arms to "find [reckless drivers] proactively, and get them off the streets." Details, however, have not been provided.
New York Gets an ‘F’ Grade in the New ‘Bike Friendly States’ Survey…
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They could have been a contender.
Wednesday’s 4/20 Headlines: How About Them Mets Edition
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Usually we get all long-winded and preachy in our headlines, but the Mets swept away the Giants like a dirty rug in yesterday's twi-nighter, so we'll just get right to business of recapping yesterday's news.
Report: Forget Last Year — The First Quarter of This Year is The Bloodiest Year Since Vision Zero Began
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Traffic fatalities are up 44 percent so far this year — the deadliest start to any year since Vision Zero launched in 2014.
CCRB Opens Probe into Police Driver Who Killed Man on Eastern Parkway
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The Civilian Complaint Review Board has opened an investigation into the death of a man who was run over and killed by an NYPD van driver on Eastern Parkway earlier this month.
CYCLE OF RAGE: City’s New Chart Doesn’t Help Us Visualize the Same Old Problem with Cars
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Cars have dashboards to tell drivers what they need to know. Cities have dashboards that do the opposite.
NEW BROOM: Sanitation Boss Restores Full Street Sweeping and Commits to Bike Lane Cleaning
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The city will restore full street sweeping, ending the de Blasio administration's Covid-era reduction in alternate-side-of-the-street parking that led to filthier streets as entitled drivers frequently didn't bother to move their cars.
EXCLUSIVE: Cops Questioned Driver in Fatal Brooklyn Hit-and-Run But Just Let Him Go
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A review of the NYPD investigation of the hit-and-run killing of Imorne Horton raises questions about police procedures and whether the NYPD and the Brooklyn District Attorney are sufficiently concerned about holding killer drivers accountable.