Rats have infested the walls, bedrooms, and bathtubs of a Brooklyn housing complex – all the way up to the 10th floor. Now, there's a livestream! For @hellgatenyc.com 👇

"The hallways...were absolutely lined with ICE agents. And immigrants were scared to leave, even though their cases were still open. What happened was that ICE agents then stormed into the courtroom, kicked out the attorneys, and detained everyone in the courtroom over the judge's objections."

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch keeps insisting that 5-year-old discovery law reforms are driving a recidivist crime wave, causing cases to be "dismissed en masse" on "technicalities." It's a big claim, and one for which she has offered zero evidence. hellgatenyc.com/tisch-cant-s...

Amidst rising deaths once again on Rikers Island, Mayor Eric Adams seems content to just shrug his shoulders. Sometimes you put people in a cage for an indefinite period of time. Sometimes they die. What's everyone pointing the finger at him for? hellgatenyc.com/rikers-death...

This leaves the real estate lobby's long-shot lawsuit pretty much dead in the water, legal experts told Hell Gate. "The whole lawsuit is baloney, it's a lottery ticket,” said NYU public law professor Roderick M. Hills.

A law passed in 2020 was meant to prevent ICE from detaining people in NY courthouses without a warrant. But a memo now tells court officers to "neither obstruct nor assist" if an ICE agent shows up without a warrant and insists on making an arrest: hellgatenyc.com/ny-courts-me...

Another staffer recalled how Cuomo wanted to enshrine Roe v. Wade into the state constitution...yet at the same time was backing the breakaway Dems in the IDC, which was blocking the Reproductive Health Act in the state legislature hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

What's this? Cuomo's own people talking in specific and urgent terms about why he'd be a terrible mayor? hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

truly thought this memo was a parody at first

dream interview for @hellgatenyc.com: jonathan tarleton x timothee

Threats from other Paul McCartney fans, waiting in the freezing rain for hours—read all about one fan's efforts to secure the hottest ticket in town: hellgatenyc.com/my-journey-t...

PBS Removes LGBTQ Teaching Resources in Response to Trump's Executive Orders

Eric Adams, who had no issues railing against the Biden administration for failing to give him enough federal aid to shelter migrants in New York City, can barely muster a light rebuke against Trump for taking $80 million out of the City's pocket.

"It's important that New Yorkers take pride in the fact that we are a city that's founded on immigration, and then also understand that the people who are behind the scenes making delicious food for them should be respected and celebrated and protected." hellgatenyc.com/new-york-res...

from @nickpinto.bsky.social: "Trump controls the man elected to speak for New York City, and, when New Yorkers take to the streets to speak for themselves, Trump will control the man who directs the police who will greet us." hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-p...

"We have management here that's making over a million dollars a year...The executives making millions of dollars say they're going to take a 10 to 20 percent cut, but we have no proof that there is any cut."

Bitch Mayor, Now Trump's Bitch

Mr. Marathon Is a 26-Mile Tribute to Cheap Produce

"do not interfere"

"The mayor didn't go public with this because he knows it's in defiance of the existing law. To have a mayor do that, is really scary." Dozens of local elected officials, healthcare workers, and immigrant groups rallied on Sunday against a new ICE guidance memo. hellgatenyc.com/adams-city-h...

🐦 @hellgatenyc.com with the crucial bird flu reporting the lede is a winner too but you'll have to click through for that hellgatenyc.com/bird-flu-egg...

NEW: A memo prepared by City Hall and recently distributed to migrant shelter operators gives workers a broad exception to allow ICE officers to enter shelters without a warrant, undercutting both the City's longstanding "sanctuary laws" and previous guidance. hellgatenyc.com/new-memo-ice...

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A new federal law will send Trump's deportation plans into overdrive. City Hall has gone silent on how it plans to protect immigrant New Yorkers, as indicted Mayor Eric Adams says that he doesn't believe immigrants deserve due process. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-l...

NEW: Parents say Mount Sinai Health System, the largest hospital network in the city, has also been canceling surgery consultations for young trans patients since as early as December, before President Donald Trump's executive order and before he was even president. hellgatenyc.com/mount-sinai-...

my personal favorite:

New York's public renewable buildout is stuck, thanks to a hamstrung authority that wasn't all that interested in doing it in the first place and a governor that refuses to fund our clean energy transition. You can kiss those 2030 climate goals goodbye. hellgatenyc.com/nypa-bpra-cl...

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Who is the asshole who got MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED speed camera tickets last year? (And more stories to start your Tuesday)

incredible that this is what the owner and publisher of bushwick daily thinks about people who live in bushwick hellgatenyc.com/whats-going-...

If the City can't even get the "worst landlord" in NYC (who has been jailed *twice* over his refusal to make basic repairs) to ensure his tenants live in decent conditions, what can be done? Steven Wishnia dives deep into the limitations of existing HPD programs, and some possible solutions:

also desperate for some laghman

desperate for the ad on the subway featuring Bill de Blasio, intimate wipes spokesperson "You want to last two terms? Brother, you need Hims wipes."

FIRST IN HELL GATE: Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has had an extremely good fundraising haul. He's netted $642,339 in donations, putting him in position to get an additional $2.4 million in public matching funds. hellgatenyc.com/zohran-mamda...

the City is evicting single men from migrant shelters—& sending them to the randall's island shelter, which is slated to close by 2/28: "If you say you're not going, they'll take you out of the system, you won't have a place to sleep, you won't have anything to eat." hellgatenyc.com/adams-admini...

I need to know everything about this!

this hed somehow undersells the story—eric adams complains that public urination is now legal (not true) and neglects to mention he supported turning it from a criminal to a civil offense while boro prez. and then! cops are issuing MORE criminal summons for public urination under his admin.

she charmed me!!! hellgatenyc.com/kari-ferrell...

"Most alarmingly, Katz said the fake Zyn also contained a far higher amount of synthetic cooling agent—up to 40 times as much."

Great work from a great publication!

Sleepless nights, strange, hallucinatory dream visions. Usually, people can only see Christian Marclay's 24-hour film "The Clock" during the daytime hours...But this weekend, MoMA offered a few people the chance to watch it all night. Our scene report. hellgatenyc.com/all-night-vi...

Of the top 30 NYPD overtime earners last year—all of whom earned more than $100K in OT and at least doubled their base salary—more than a third had substantiated misconduct charges or were named in a lawsuit the City paid to settle. hellgatenyc.com/nypd-overtim...

An update to our story about NYU banning four of its own faculty members from campus spaces after pro-Palestine student protests last week, courtesy of @chenjerai.bsky.social - and no, NYU administrators still haven't responded to our requests for comment: hellgatenyc.com/nyu-journali...

At the first post-election clinic on November 10 at Bluestockings, the line snaked nearly twice around the bookstore. "I'm glad that we had a line out the door...but it's awful that the reason people are here is because they're scared." hellgatenyc.com/trans-law-st...

Perp walks are designed to humiliate—but the mayor and the NYPD literally couldn't have made Mangione look better if they tried. What does it MEAN?