Through four governors and countless rounds of Albany scandal, Tom DiNapoli just keeps chugging along. Despite his low profile, the state comptroller has served for nearly two decades, never drawing a
A brand-new Hell Gate Podcast episode will be dropping later today! You won't want to miss it. Listen and subscribe here, or wherever you get your podcasts.After four consecutive years of rent hikes,
The terminal phase of our state's absolutely demented budget process is normally marked by the governor proudly declaring during a victory-lap press conference that after a lot of negotiations, discus
As Governor Kathy Hochul and the state legislature continue to fight over whether or not a budget deal even exists, all parties have come to an agreement that chronically speeding drivers in New York
For a man who could plausibly claim to be the Arab world's first major printmaker, the Sudanese American artist Mohammad Omer Khalil cuts a surprisingly disarming figure. Casually dressed in a Scooby
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.On Wednesday night, Hell Gate went to Littlefi
Pop quiz: Should the phrase tax the rich be considered just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs? If you answered, No, of course not, I'm not an oblivious buffoon who would conflate racism with
For the past year, Hell Gate and Type Investigations have been haunting courtrooms, hanging out in strange outerborough political clubhouses, and filing endless requests for transcripts to produce Cou
Pizza has played a huge role in George Tagaris's life. Some of his favorite memories of growing up in Flushing are of family outings over to Whitestone, where dinner was a slice or two at Freddy's and
Have you been listening to the Hell Gate Podcast? You can catch last week's episode here.I'm just trying to get to the grocery store to get bananas for my kid, a woman with a stroller pleaded with the
Later tonight, the Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side is scheduled to host an event promoting the sale of land in Israel, prompting an expected protest by organizations who say the event will
Jeff Bezos's Met Gala reared its hideous but expensively face-lifted head Monday night, and it was, as Anna Wintour biographer Amy Odell put it, all money, no soul.While the Met Gala is ostensibly abo
Judges wield enormous power. Here in the five boroughs, they are often the ultimate arbiters in deciding how many New Yorkers get sent to Rikers Island, where and how new housing will be built, and wh
Have you been listening to the Hell Gate Podcast? You can catch last week's episode here.Judges wield enormous power. Here in the five boroughs, they are often the ultimate arbiters in deciding how ma
Last Monday afternoon, at around 4:10 p.m., I arrived at LaGuardia to board my 4:45 flight to Florida via Spirit Airlines, booked entirely with points earned through dining out on my Spirit Airlines B
If you're looking for major differences on policy issues between the three Democratic candidates vying to replace Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez in New York's 7th District, you might have to squint. Br
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.On Saturday night,
The choreographer Symara Sarai knows that there's something cathartic about a good fight. Their most recent work, a dance play called Angelic Architectures, has its cast members in various states of s
The Urban Meadow Community Garden, at the corner of Van Brunt and President in Brooklyn, has everything you'd want in a green space: trees for shade, plenty of grass, flowers for eye candy, beds for p
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There's one stretch of road in Brooklyn that locals can barely mention without tripping or busting an axle: the Broadway corridor.New York City’s most messed-up Broadway, which runs four miles from Wi
Even by the famously multinational standards of Queens, the stretch of Broadway around Elmhurst Hospital and the Jackson Heights subway station is notable for its gleeful diversity, at least at the st
Albany has entered its seasonal state of deadlock, as the state budget is now one whole month late, with the two houses of the legislature and the governor still debating a wide range of extremely com
Zohran Mamdani joined a long and strange New York City mayoral tradition Wednesday afternoon: navigating official encounters with British royals. Well, sort of: He mostly dodged having much to do with
It's Wednesday, you deserve a treat, like an episode of the Hell Gate Podcast! Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.We have a winner in the special election for the Manhattan City Council se
On Tuesday morning, Mayor Mamdani's Office of Mass Engagement will announce its first big initiative: Organize NYC, a multi-issue project aimed at getting New Yorkers more involved in their city gover
If parents want to deprive their children of an education that meets basic standards in reading, writing, math, science and other subjects, there's no legal requirement that the state of New York do a
The two most powerful elected officials in New York City are sending a message to the governor: It's time to tax the rich and well-to-do businesses.At a Tuesday morning press conference, Mayor Zohran
Throughout the history of Andrew Lloyd Webber's megamusical Cats, the character of Bustopher Jones has been played as a snooty, if unserious, white male fat-cat who represents the aristocracy (of cats
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Earlier today, on my way back from a press conference on Staten Island about World Cup watch parties, I rode my bike to the Staten Island Ferry. A bike to a ferry? What is this, 1870? But it was on th
Earlier this month, after a series of news stories revealed that Bronx State Senator Luis Sepúlveda was a repeated no-show in housing court for the tenants he was representing, he defended his record
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Creative Accounting is Hell Gate's new column exploring the unfiltered economic realities of life in New York City's creative circles. Our interviewees might have day jobs outside of their creative pr
In the fall of 2022, Brooklyn-based textile artist Carter Shocket began dreaming up the idea of a trans artist network. He had been working with Trans Revolutionary Action Network for NY, a mutual aid
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.Will we see Zohran Mamdani's first veto this weekend
New York City's hottest takeout spot is a tiny beige room in Midtown.On Thursday afternoon, we joined the hordes of office workers who wanted to try Goop Kitchen—the newest outpost of Gwyneth Paltrow'
Mets curse discourse is a perennial spring tradition. As the New York City baseball team begins its latest absolutely doomed season, enthusiasts are having their annual fun with the Mets curse theorie
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.On Wednesday morning around 9:30 a.m., a swarm
For three years, the NYPD failed to audit stops and searches made by a specialized unit to make sure they complied with basic constitutional standards, as it was required to do, according to a letter
For all its glitz and glamour, the Met Gala has long been a site of tension and protest. For the last five years, activists have taken advantage of the concentration of journalists and paparazzi that
Pop-ups can be really cool, both because they offer an easy way for us to try something new—Mexican fusion pizza? Bring it, baby!—and, for their proprietors, serve as a low-overhead means to field-tes
It's Wednesday, you deserve a treat, like an episode of the Hell Gate Podcast! Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.On Wednesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the appointment of his commis
New York City's largest police union filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the City agency tasked with investigating police misconduct, accusing the agency of di
A bill that would require the most dangerous drivers in New York City to install speed limiters in their cars is facing a major obstacle to being passed in the state budget: New York State Assembly Sp
Have you been listening to the Hell Gate Podcast? You can catch last week's episode here.On Monday afternoon, a group of ghosts from an administration past gathered in a 28th-floor conference room at
Totally cashed, bro. That was the story for New York City's stoners on this 4/20, as the city's weed-lovers attempted to celebrate in local parks and were for the most part stymied by the buzz-killing
What if every red light ticket the NYPD gave to cyclists since late 2019 was bogus?
One recent Saturday night, a group of strangers stood huddled together on the south side of Prospect Park Lake, whispering to each other and peering through overhanging tree limbs into the sky. It was
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.On Friday, WIRED pu