Gene Russianoff

Who is Gene Russianoff?

Gene Russianoff is staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign for NYPIRG, a New York City-based public transport advocacy group that focuses primarily on subway and bus services run by New York City Transit. "For three decades, Gene Russianoff, the staff lawyer for the New York Public Interest Research Group’s Straphangers Campaign, has championed the rights of subway riders," according to a 2010 profile in The New York Times.

Russianoff is a graduate of Brooklyn College and Harvard Law School, and has worked for New York Public Interest Research Group since his graduation from Harvard Law in 1978. In 1983, he was a Revson Fellow at Columbia University.

Gene regularly posts on the NYPIRG Straphangers' Campaign Blog, Transit Talk.

He works at the NYPIRG's NYC office in Lower Manhattan.