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<div dir="ltr">Jose Corpas is a former road test examiner in Staten Island who has since switched to teaching and taught thousands of people, including celebrities, how to navigate the streets of New York City. He is also a writer covering sports and other local issues.</div>

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Julianne Cuba joined Streetsblog in February, 2019, after three years covering local news and politics at The Brooklyn Paper. There, she also covered the notoriously reckless private carting industry and hit-and-runs. A 2015 graduate of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism Master’s Program, she lives in Brooklyn. Julianne is on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/julcuba?lang=en">@julcuba</a>. Email Julianne at <a href="mailto:julianne@streetsblog.org">julianne@streetsblog.org</a>

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