“This is not quite business as usual anymore,” one of the organizers of an open letter to the NYT told Hell Gate.

The massive increase coincided with just a two percent decrease in serious crime.

“We’re a bunch of New Yorkers trying to take back this public space and make a message.”

If our beloved bike share program is going to double as wildly successful bank advertising, we should make that bank pay what it's actually worth.

And some definitely true links for your Thursday.

"We don't blindly follow your authority just because you're the mayor."

"I can't stay at home, I need to make money. This is my bread and butter."

To address New York City's lack of public restrooms, a new City Council bill would require the government to come up with a plan to create thousands of new public toilets by 2035.

Footage released by the DA's office shows the cops initiated the arrest of a migrant in Times Square after he made a remark about "Ugly Betty."

Libraries are already short-staffed. What will happen if their budgets are cut even more?

Ayat opens its first Manhattan location during a deeply fearful time.

NYC's "report card" is here and it looks like we're in for a rough parent-teacher conference.

Harvey’s owner is joined by 2,746 other humans who have been arrested for filming the NYPD in the last two years alone.

Over the past few weeks, NYPD officers have punched protesters, ripped signs out of peoples' hands, and lashed out after seemingly minor infractions, such as protesters shaking a barricade. 

Columbia admin and the NYPD tried to keep the press from seeing Tuesday night's massive raid up close. They didn’t quite succeed.

“This is not quite business as usual anymore,” one of the organizers of an open letter to the NYT told Hell Gate.

Hundreds of officers burst through the City College gates, clearing out a Gaza solidarity encampment.

A massive win for public power amidst a bleak conclusion to state budget negotiations.

An artist collective drummed up more photos of cops on their phones than they could fill a zine with.

It appeared that the mayor and his team were building a new system, from scratch, two days into a crisis.

As one expert told us, “It’s never happened once.”

"This summer, especially with Barbenheimer, things were just so unbearably horrible, like, abnormal. And everything corporate was doing was making it so much worse," said one union organizer at the...

The founder of Baba's Olives, whose "Free Palestine" signs were torn down last year, has three suggestions for a stellar meal in Astoria.

An ugly encounter in a Brooklyn stationhouse is setting off a new legal battle over filming the police.

While managers got away with millions, it's unclear if laid off staffers will even get severance.

"I can't stay at home, I need to make money. This is my bread and butter."

Hell Gate presents an interactive site exploring dozens of people who are in the mayor's orbit, their connections to each other, and why it all matters.

Keechant Sewell was doing the job Eric Adams and his buddies wanted all along.

The most predictable thing in the worst way, and other links to start your day.

"Nothing short of an extrajudicial campaign of terror and kidnapping.”

We're a year in, and in the interest of transparency, we want to share both the successes and the challenges of the past year, as well as what we think will be next for Hell Gate. 

New Jersey is suing the federal government, claiming that New York's congestion pricing isn't fair, and that the MTA should have spent a few more years studying it.

And more news for your Thursday.

At least one person found this speech "distasteful."

The City is paying to settle another lawsuit over the police response to the 2020 protests. The video evidence collected shows why.

For the 17th person to die in NYC jails last year, a plea for medical help was answered with a fateful arrest.

The infrastructure is already in place—we just need to put it to a second use.

The mayor sat down for an interview with The Breakfast Club this week that was rare both for its length—50 minutes—and its refreshingly adversarial tenor. 

New York City's savviest MAGA councilmember also happens to be real close to City Hall, and other links to start your day.

"I can't stay at home, I need to make money. This is my bread and butter."

In the first edition of our biweekly roundup of cops behaving badly, we've got knife-wielding cops, Israeli cops, a cop killing a man with a cooler, a cop's death by friendly fire captured in...

"The NYPD is lying—and frankly, not even doing a particularly good job at it."

In a new lawsuit, a man charged with and cleared of gun possession says police officers framed him, and that it wasn't the first time they had been caught lying.

Even with a serious heads-up, Mayor Adams was out of sight.

When Vincenza Ann "Virginia" Filingeri Checkle died, 20th-century Brooklyn died with her.

The creator of "The Wire" tweeted his displeasure after receiving a $50 speeding ticket in NYC, citing it as evidence that the Big Apple is an "off-brand city."

A New Yorker with long COVID confronts a life where public officials have all but abandoned her, doctors throw up their hands, and her friends and loved ones move on.

Ten years after a federal court declared the NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional, street stops are on the rise.

The bank, which is helping to fund the sprawling police complex in Atlanta that has become a flashpoint for protest, won't say.

New York's lawmakers have moved to ramp up criminal penalties for those participating in nonviolent demonstrations—just like they did in 1964.

"I'll be here until I am relieved of duty or until a former president is arraigned in court," Hell Gate's Max Rivlin-Nadler vows.

Because what is the City Council gonna do—not give them $6 billion?

Why did he say that???

The City is now swimming in tax money, but some things, like open pools, might never come back.

Attention must be paid, and more links to start your day.

New City Council legislation would preserve NYC's most precious resource: free parking.

Shoplifting has increased in NYC, but how much of it is the work of sophisticated gangs?

An interview with the African immigrant who set up illegal shelters for dozens of recently arrived migrants.

“This is not quite business as usual anymore,” one of the organizers of an open letter to the NYT told Hell Gate.

The mayor told New Yorkers that despite the flooding, everything is going according to the plans designed and executed by his subordinates.

When a cyclist tried to stop NYPD officers from illegally parking outside a Brooklyn police precinct, the cops wrote him a summons for biking on the sidewalk.

Condé Nast's decision to gut Pitchfork and stuff it into GQ is a huge blow to music journalism, and to music.

In a new lawsuit, a man charged with and cleared of gun possession says police officers framed him, and that it wasn't the first time they had been caught lying.

Adam White plans on suing the City and the NYPD for false arrest, and the driver for making false claims.

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