Gersh Kuntzman
Single White Reporter Seeks Loving Woman With Long Legs, Longer Lease
Brooklyn Paper senior reporter Mike McLaughlin just got dumped -- now he needs a new girlfriend and, more importantly, a new apartment.
Cue the cameras! Mr. McLaughlin will be chronicling his search for love and shelter in a new weekly video segment called "The Search."
"It's a classic New York story," said his boss, Gersh Kuntzman.
Note the comments:
"All my lady friends are going to be beating down his door... granted he needs to get a door first."
Brooklyn Pizzeria Rips Out Seating, Resolves Loitering
Mr. Kuntzman is pissed because a fine levied against his beloved Roma Pizza on Seventh Avenue convinced the proprietor to take immediate action--and eliminate a bunch of seats.
Roma ripped out half of its seats rather than fight a law that requires restaurants with more than 19 seats to "provide toilet facilities for the public"....Despite Mr. Kuntzman's stated displeasure at having to "eat a slice standing up, like Tony Manero," Roma's owner sees a bright side:Roma now has only 16 seats--and the bathroom remains behind the counter. The result? I still have to ask the counterman to let me go into the kitchen to use the can--and now I can never find a seat at my neighborhood pizzeria!
"When I had all these seats, people would sit here for hours and order only one slice," he said. "Now, they have to stand, so they eat and they leave."
And then they go home and type an angry rant against the Health Department. That ought to make the next inspection go much smoother.
- Chris ShottDid We Mention the Brooklyn Papers?
Gersh Kuntzman, a former employee of the New York Post, was mentioned in the story in relation to current Post employees. He is not one any longer, having left that paper in what he himself describes as "a bit of a huff" six months ago.
Mr. Kuntzman is currently happily employed as the editor-in-chief of the Brooklyn Papers. The Transom has happily perused the Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper quite recently, by the way, and found it terribly informative. So let the record reflect: for all your Kuntzman needs, do enjoy the Brooklyn Papers.
Sorting It All Out
In response to our question about why, if the newspaper had a tape of a session, it didn’t quote from it, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Gersh Kuntzman, e-mailed us to say: “Why didn't we quote from it?! Because the people whose voices were recorded on that tape did not consent to be quoted in advance and their identities could not be verified merely from listening to the tape. When they spoke on the tape, they presumed that what they were saying was private. We merely listened to the tape as a way of confirming what people outside the meeting told us.”
Hey, we just thought there might be some juicy stuff in there, that’s all.
Ariella Cohen, the reporter who wrote the story, told us when we called to clarify that she believed even the moderators of the focus groups deserved privacy. She added that she stood outside the office where the sessions took place and talked to about eight participants to get first-hand accounts.
Forest City Ratner is asserting that only 70 people participated in the focus groups . But The Brooklyn Papers is standing by its story, which stated that there were thousands of participants. Cohen said the number came from an official at the focus group company, Recruiting Resources Unlimited, and that she was unable to confirm it with Forest City since the developer refused to acknowledge that it was doing focus groups.
Whew! Well, at least we know people are reading—that is, at least the people we are writing about are reading. read more »
-Matthew SchuermanI Devour Frogs of Summer With a Post Columnist
