A perk of owning your workplace as a journalist is that, if you think it's interesting, you can write story after story about an insane legal tangle of alleged scammers, political machers, and conflicted judges, and there's no one to tell you to knock it off. hellgatenyc.com/missing-2-mi...

A Manhattan housing court judge dramatically submitted his resignation in court last week, just days after he got into a "spat" with an attorney he ruled against—who happened to be Bronx State Sen. Luis Sepúlveda, the chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. hellgatenyc.com/senator-luis...

According to a new report by the City's Independent Budget Office, composting rates spiked in 2025...for the three weeks that the Adams administration actually enforced fines for noncompliance. No more fines = way less composting. Thanks a lot, RANDY.

The “yoink!” really sets this Bryant Park woodcock video apart from the rest, for me hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-...

It takes true star power to join the exclusive club of celebrity birds in New York City, and we can confirm that the American woodcock who has turned Bryant Park into its migratory dance floor has got that special something. hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-...

I wrote a bunch of these. I won’t say which ones, but I *will* say that if you think one is really good, I wrote it, but if you think one is bad, someone else wrote it, but if it’s so bad that it enrages you and makes veins in your forehead pop out, then I wrote it. hellgatenyc.com/march-madnes...

NEW: New York Focus is suing the state prison agency. @hellgatenyc.com reporter @nickpinto.bsky.social interviewed @chrisgelardi.bsky.social, New York Focus’s justice bureau chief, and Hell Gate’s @jessyedwards.bsky.social about the lawsuit, their reporting, and why it matters.

There's a new hot bird in town! And it's the first time NYC has ever seen a trumpeter swan, in recorded history (after it came back from the brink of extinction). In the last week, it's been spotted frequently hanging out with one of our mute swans 👀 hellgatenyc.com/behold-nycs-...

Pinnacle moved to evict this couple the same week their baby was born. They’d been withholding rent for 2 months, after fighting for repairs for over a year. After the mom came home from a C-section, she stood on a nail, found a dead mouse in clean sheets, and roaches crawling in the baby bottles

After the snowstorm, Hell Gate reporter @jessyedwards.bsky.social wanted to go sledding for the very first time, but she didn't own a sled. Would the kids of New York City help her to live her dream?

3 hours left! That's 180 minutes! Until your chance to get a Hell Gate Believer subscription for 25% off—or to upgrade your Friend or Supporter subscription—and be among the first to get a "Welcome to Fear City" T-shirt is OVER! Act now! hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-t-...

This is an extremely charming account of someone who did not grow up sledding taking the opportunity of today's blizzard to go sledding with kids in New York City. Tomorrow I am gonna lend @jessyedwards.bsky.social my copy of Ethan Frome. hellgatenyc.com/can-i-borrow...

Hell Gate reporter @jessyedwards.bsky.social wanted to go sledding today for the very first time, but she doesn't own a sled. Would the kids of New York City help her to live her dream?

Fantastic reporting from @chrisgelardi.bsky.social who easily found a former New York prison chef accused of sexual assault, after the state insisted in legal filings that he did not exist.

Our own @jessyedwards.bsky.social on why you should smash that subscribe button: hellgatenyc.com/membership/

Are you hungering for some very funny, extremely insightful-yet-somehow-also-mischevious food journalism? Well then the folks at the brand new Gourmet Magazine have you covered. We caught up with them about their launch month. hellgatenyc.com/the-new-gour...

NEW EPISODE OF THE HELL GATE PODCAST While the ice floes keep drifting down the Hudson, nurses are still picketing outside hospitals, Luigi Mangione is still in jail, and Jessy’s heat isn’t really working. Keep warm with us!!!!!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

PureGym member Jon Gingerich is filing an ADA complaint after he says a gym staffer told him last week that his membership could be canceled if he didn’t monitor for ‘tailgaters’ when he enters the gym through the accessibility door: hellgatenyc.com/puregym-tail...

Lots of heartbreaking, enraging, cortisol-dump-inducing images coming out of Minneapolis, but I'm stuck on this one, of a five-year-old in his preschool backpack just before being bundled into an ICE van and disappeared from his mother and brother and community. www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

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"This one does feel like it has the potential to be a pretty decent-sized storm. Especially since it's spanning potentially two to three days, and over the course of the weekend."

Subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com , support worker-owned local journalism, and get your timely and hard-hitting deep-dive investigation into the mayor's interest in bidets nearly a week before New York Times readers hear a word about it! hellgatenyc.com/bidest-socia...

Spent 9 hours in a marathon bankruptcy court hearing yesterday to cover the fate of 5,200 NYC homes up for sale to Israeli businessman Zohar Levy. He couldn't make it in person to discuss the $451M deal: He's on vacay in Austria. Today, despite the City's opposition, a judge approved the sale.

Weeks after we first wrote about PureGym's controversial tube-assisted egress system, the FDNY has inspected 7 of the gym locations and issued dozens of violations, some of them related to having to scan your phone to exit the building.

Those new PureGym pods & doors that force you to scan your phone to enter and EXIT the gym? The FDNY is onto them, and has already issued more than 2 dozen violations at seven gyms, since PureGym installed the pods in December. hellgatenyc.com/fdny-violati...

This morning, a judge denied the Mamdani Administration's request to delay the Pinnacle auction, as a strange connection between Pinnacle's CEO and the auction's only bidder was revealed. The right-wing backlash to Cea Weaver this week? It's all related. hellgatenyc.com/whats-behind...

Eric Adams is no longer the mayor of New York City. But like the action-movie hero who blows up the headquarters as he walks away without turning around, Adams spent his final days in office doing his very best to fuck over his successor, Zohran Mamdani.

What happened on day one? A lot! And Hell Gate was there for it all. hellgatenyc.com/mayor-mamdan...

The state, represented by the office of Attorney General Letitia James, plans to ask judges to dismiss up to 500 prison sexual assault cases filed against it under the Adult Survivors Act, Hell Gate and New York Focus have learned.

Hell Gate podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Thanks to an 11th-hour appointment by Mayor Eric Adams, the new head of the agency tasked with investigating police misconduct against civilians is a guy who says civilians should be threatened with perjury to discourage them from complaining about police misconduct. hellgatenyc.com/pat-smith-ch...

This week, the City quietly dropped a new report indicating, once again, that the Raise the Age Law is not creating a "consequence-free" youth crime wave, as NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has previously said.

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A ceiling collapse in a Crown Heights apartment over Thanksgiving weekend is the latest sign of neglect inside buildings owned by billionaire Joel Wiener’s Pinnacle Group. Now, tenants are intensifying their calls to halt the current bankruptcy auction of 93 rent-stabilized Pinnacle buildings.

New York City, which currently has no full-scale casinos, is one step away from building three multibillion-dollar gambling complexes within 10 miles of each other.

Nothing can possibly do justice to the incredible body language on display here—Mamdani's rigid spine, his hands clasped tightly to prevent them from punching a hole in the Oval Office window and jumping out of it, Trump repeatedly touching Mamdani's arm, smiling at him like the son he's never had.

Two of these NYPD cops told me they hate their jobs because of the forced overtime and endless calls to deal with homelessness and mental health issues. They hoped Mamdani could help fix that.

The great @jessyedwards.bsky.social is reporting from the Curtis Sliwa election party for @hellgatenyc.com in a tasteful beret of her own! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKA4...

"Stubbornly idealistic" independent local journalism that's owned & run by the people working there? Yes! We love this work so much that Ruth Ann personally gave @hellgatenyc.com support for a dedicated podcasting studio, which they're naming The Ruth Ann Harnisch Studio. Join us in supporting them!

Where will you be tomorrow night when the NYC election results come in? Perhaps at a bar with your friends. Perhaps at home in the dark, bathed in the faint, unearthly glow of a screen. Wherever you are, @hellgatenyc.com will be by your side. hellgatenyc.com/election-nig...

Exclusive! After 3 years sparring with their billionaire owners for a union contract, workers at the @nydailynews.com are finally on the precipice of inking a deal—and clawing back some of what they’ve lost since hedge-fund vampires took over the paper in 2021.

As of this month, the TVs in NYC taxis are now playing national news from Newsmax—the ultra-conservative outlet known for pushing baseless election fraud claims. Curb, the company that controls what's on the screens, announced the collab late September.

My favorite writers also happen to be my @hellgatenyc.com colleagues. RIP Blink Fitness.

This Bronx family went 6 weeks with no running water, gas or power. Instead of using all the tools at its disposal to restore the utilities, the City's HPD told them to leave. An incredibly frustrating case illustrating how some NYC families are falling through the cracks.

Subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com, support worker-owned local journalism, and get your Spooky Bookstore Opening news days before right-wing corporate media publishes it with an “exclusive”tag! hellgatenyc.com/twisted-spin...

Sophie, a 30-year-old social worker at Brooklyn Defender Services, had barely interacted with the org's boss before she was summoned to her office last week. When Lisa Schreibersdorf asked her to lead a union-busting effort, she said she was shocked.

A researcher on the Hindutva movement told me the ads were likely bought with Indian taxpayer money. "[The BJP] has long held these superpower ambitions for Modi, and in the absence of anything real to show for it, they're happy to pay a private, anonymous advertising firm to blast these around."

I tagged along on a tour of NYC rent-stabilized apartments hosted by @emilyassembly.bsky.social for Austrian Vice-Chancellor @andibabler.at, where the Austrian had some frank advice for NY lawmakers (and a warning for his constituents back home)

I told the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet his band's new album is his best yet, and he replied, "we don't necessarily improve as artists. We just don't." hellgatenyc.com/paul-muldoon...

"If you have enough money to book Third Eye Blind and give us free drinks, you can afford to pay your workers." At Instacart’s free concert last week, attendees weighed in on the company’s campaign to block fair wage laws for its deliveristas (set to go in front of the City Council tomorrow)