Gersh Kuntzman has become a vigilante across New York, fixing up defaced or obscured license plates that would otherwise go unread by speeding-ticket cameras.
A crime wave can be a boon to the media—dramatic content, urgent headlines. The other afternoon, in lower Manhattan, Gersh Kuntzman, the formercolumnist, who now runs Streetsblog NYC, set out to document a crime wave of his own making. He slipped on fluorescent gloves and mounted his silver-and-lime bike, which was covered with stickers and outfitted with a black pannier. Inside: paper towels and a blue acrylic paint pen.
He headed south, past a row of cars infringing liberally on a new bike lane. He slowed before Worth Street, at a silver Mercedes parked in a crosswalk. The car’s plates were encased in opaque plastic—impossible for the cameras to read. On the dash: an M.T.A. Police placard. Kuntzman offered congratulations and rode off. Such confrontations, he said, were rare. Once, in Brooklyn, he snapped two cars bearing identical plates. A woman came up to him and asked why he was taking photos of her car. “I said, ‘I’m not,’ ” Kuntzman recalled, “which was a lie.” Later, he called 311 and reported her.
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