Have you been listening to the Hell Gate Podcast? You can catch last week's episode here.To live in New York City is to be in constant contact with its fauna. We've got a veritable zoo of critters tha
Electro-Harmonix impresario Mike Matthews on his wild life, from promoting beach parties to making rock history.
Hell Gate originally published this story on September 7, 2022.I’ve basked on many beaches, near and far. But I was shaped by a crescent of sand on the Bronx side of the Long Island Sound. The beach w
Got yourself a dreaded case of the Mondays? Start your week off right by catching up on last week's episode of the Hell Gate Podcast. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.Do you want to get
This year's City-funded fest was padded with SXSW-style panels, but a change may be coming.
I first met Quincy Taylor over on the west side of Crown Heights, where he and his crew (aka his literal family) were firing a slew of jerk chicken on a rogue sidewalk grill set up near Franklin Avenu
Plus more links for your Independence Day weekend.
On Tuesday afternoon, more than 50 public defenders from the Neighborhood Defender Service Union of New York gathered outside their Lower Manhattan office, braving the scorching heat to picket their e
Let's be honest: Partying never looks as good as it feels. Like many other things in life—losing one's virginity or getting shot, for instance—boozing, dancing, talking to strangers, piling into a sin
And more stories to kick off the heat wave.
Every budget that follows will build on the principles established here, the mayor said. That means finding efficiencies, it means cutting waste, and it means taxing the rich.
Today Hell Gate bids farewell to one of its founding editors, Esther Wang. Esther has been at Hell Gate from the very start—back in January 2022, when it was just a handful of people, dreaming up a ne
How author and Lux Magazine editor Natalie Adler wrote her debut novel.
Have you been listening to the Hell Gate Podcast? You can catch last week's episode here.It's officially summer, and what better way to celebrate than in the Rockaways with your friends at Hell Gate,
We had so much fun throwing our first Hell Gate beach party last summer with our pals at Shea Stadium that we're doing it all over again. And this time, we're doubling down!That's right. We're bringin
It wasn't quite fitting that the final day at Aqueduct Racetrack was a bucolic and lazy Sunday in early summer, with a calm breeze floating over the Belt from the bay, and the sky a light blue with fr
Andrew Cuomo has a new gig: remaking the financial services industry at the behest of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.Last week, Cuomo was named as the co-chair of a new joint
The psychotherapists of the queer- and POC-focused MCM Collaborative are creating a therapy practice based on shared values—and equitable ownership.
Got yourself a dreaded case of the Mondays? Start your week off right by catching up on last week's episode of the Hell Gate Podcast. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.It's officially sum
Outdoor pools in New York City will open tomorrow, signaling the official start of summer in the city. And this year, Adult Lap Swim will also return—bigger and better than any year since 2019, when t
Make time this weekend to see The Warehouse, a radical art project about mass incarceration.
On a Saturday afternoon last month in Bensonhurst Park, Caleb Roenigk approached a London plane tree, a cousin of the sycamore and the most commonly planted tree species across the City's parks. Walki
A brand-new Hell Gate Podcast will be dropping later today! You won't want to miss it. Listen and subscribe here, or wherever you get your podcasts.Mayor Zohran Mamdani is on a hot streak. Days after
At first blush, Robin Byrd and George Carroll Whipple III could not be more different. Byrd, an adoptee born and raised in Manhattan, ran away from home at the age of 13. Whipple, a descendant of not
Chef Jun Park used to work in fancy kitchens. Jean Georges, ABC Kitchen, Catch, the Mark Hotel—for the first decade or so after coming to New York City, these were the sorts of restaurants where Park
This week's episode of the Hell Gate Podcast arrives tomorrow. Make sure you never miss an episode by subscribing here, or wherever you get your podcasts.They finally did it. A group of reformers who
The smash-and-grab era might truly be over for Eric Adams's cronies.Frank Carone, the longtime Brooklyn fixer and former chief of staff to Mayor Adams, was arrested by federal authorities on Wednesday
The dust is still settling on the Great Democratic Primary Election of 2026, and future historians will be the ultimate arbiters of what it all meant. But it is said that journalists write the first d
If Tuesday night was a glorious vindication of NYC-DSA's strategy of relentless canvassing and message discipline, it was a more dispiriting affair for the Working Families Party. Two of their three c
It's Wednesday, you deserve a treat, like an episode of the Hell Gate Podcast! Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.For weeks leading up to Tuesday’s primary election, the consensus was that
Wake up, New York, it's primary election day! If you haven't already done so (and are a registered Democrat or Republican), go vote. You can find your polling site and review a sample ballot here. Hel
Hello on this soggy, muggy primary day! After the polls close at 9 p.m. tonight, we'll find out whether Mayor Zohran Mamdani has the political juice to launch a pair of democratic socialists into Cong
Maddie's Secret, the directorial debut of actor, musician, and outré comedy godhead John Early, is both unlike a film you've ever seen and a lot like a lot of films you've probably seen. It strikes th
We cracked the fundraising books on the Adriano Espaillat and Darializa Avila Chevalier campaigns in the Commie Corridor Jr.
Got yourself a dreaded case of the Mondays? Start your week off right by catching up on last week's episode of the Hell Gate Podcast. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.Join us tomorrow, T
Chuck Park, the insurgent progressive hoping to unseat six-term Representative Grace Meng in Queens' NY-6 congressional district primary on Tuesday, is counting on a certain kind of voter: those disen
On a recent steamy Thursday afternoon, State Senator Jessica Ramos was speaking to a small crowd of retired Nepalese residents in Jackson Heights. After shaking some hands and taking some photos, the
New York Knicks fans in attendance at Thursday's City Hall ceremony could plausibly claim to be living in a dream. The end of the star-studded proceedings literally saw Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Kn
While bumbling around TikTok the other day I came upon this clip of my buddy Maxi, the wonton queen of NYC who's behind the excellent noodle shops Maxi 1, Maxi 2 (both in Flushing), and Maxi 3 (in Chi
Plus more links for your ticker-tape Thursday.
Today is no ordinary day in Lower Manhattan. We watched hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers (maybe a million or more?) crowd the streets to catch a glimpse of the New York Knicks, who are celebrating
New York City has been innovating arts and culture at least since Tin Pan Alley songwriters were cranking out baseball theme songs, but in recent years—since the 1980s, some might say—there's been an
A majority of Americans do not trust journalists to act in the public's best interests—and how could they, if some of the most prominent practitioners are freewheeling fuckbois?Last night's Rosalía sh
On Tuesday afternoon, a dozen activists from the group Rise and Resist drifted together in front of a Shake Shack on Varick Street in Manhattan, where they recognized each other from past collaboratio
It's Wednesday, you deserve a treat, like an episode of the Hell Gate Podcast! Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.Congressman Adriano Espaillat delivered an animated attack on challenger D
Last year, Hell Gate's reporters fanned out across the five boroughs to broadcast live coverage of the Democratic mayoral primary. It was a bold experiment for a small news organization like ours—but
On Thursday night, the Rent Guidelines Board—the group that decides whether rents in the city's 1 million stabilized apartments will go up, down, or remain the same—held its third public hearing in Br
Every summer, for more than half a century, food vendors have been dishing out Latin street food at the Red Hook Ball Fields, first as a mainstay for Latino families who gathered for soccer and baseba
Have you been listening to the Hell Gate Podcast? You can catch last week's episode here.Early voting has already begun in New York's 2026 primary elections, and the final ballots will be cast in a we
On Saturday afternoon, a few hours before the New York Knicks tipped off the game that would bring them their first championship in 53 years, I was completely surrounded by Knicks fans. This is a like