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What's it like to have a viral coffee shop on your block? According to multiple Nolita residents who spoke to Hell Gate, it's pretty terrible. The word "nightmare" came up in multiple interviews. Take a deep breath, then read the full story here:

When was the last time you thought about "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"? Well, now's your chance—the musical version of the "what if a baby was old" story is now playing at the Public Theater through the beginning of December. hellgatenyc.com/benjamin-but...

Proud to be a part of tonight's winning trivia team: Habeas Corpses! 🏆 Thank you to @hellgatenyc.com for hosting this fun event and for our first place prize: a gift certificate to Nick's Lobster House 😜 (IYKYK)

Morning Spew for Night Owls—An otherwise normal campaign appearance transformed into a celebrity-style frenzy, courtesy the city's youth.

After years of delays, appeals, denials, and litigation, New York City's most secretive agency may finally be forced to cough up a tranche of public documents revealing details of police surveillance programs. hellgatenyc.com/nypd-foil-co...

On this week's Hell Gate Podcast, the team discusses the never-ending madness that are the Brooklyn Democrats. Listen and watch here! youtu.be/BR7jMMWsOOQ?...

What's it like to have a viral coffee shop on your block? According to multiple Nolita residents who spoke to Hell Gate, it's pretty terrible. The word "nightmare" came up in multiple interviews. Take a deep breath, then read the full story here: hellgatenyc.com/caffe-paradi...

An otherwise normal campaign appearance transformed into a celebrity-style frenzy, courtesy the city's youth.

Following the violent assault of a school dean in Brooklyn last week, the transit system announced a pause on its nightmare bus enforcement regime. hellgatenyc.com/eagle-mta-fa...

If 2025's major ballot prop theme was Yay Increase Multifamily Buildings Yugely (YIMBY), 2026's might be Fix All Streets and other Stuff Today (FASST). hellgatenyc.com/crash-course...

COPA lives!

"I was released because I called the U.S. embassy. Regular Palestinians don’t have a get-out-of-jail card like that," Won told Hell Gate after being detained during an olive harvest.

This Sheepshead Bay banger has been packing in the locals since 2000.

Unearthed from a time capsule in a waste treatment facility, former Mayor Abe Beame had high hopes for the future. Way too high.

The number of drivers who have racked up 16 or more speed camera tickets in a one-year period is spiking, right as legislation to slow them down is introduced.

Family-friendly values! A dress code!

At their upcoming convention, NYC-DSA is setting their sights no lower than the presidency.

A town hall with Mamdani's Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels and the New York Times's Nikole Hannah-Jones quickly turned tense.

Our basketball gods have returned.

A Tuesday in court with the Brooklyn Dems.

You're not doing shit.

The Knicks are truly the team of New Yorkers...with $2,000 to $36,000 in disposable income.

A new off-Broadway play revels in Gen-Z cusper coming-of-age dramatics.

New York City has been blessed with another mandarin duck, after becoming captivated by the dazzling bird in 2018.

Only the subtlest legal minds will grasp the big questions as the Brooklyn Dems legal battle returns to court.

New York's stalwart, nationally influential hip-hop radio station appears to be in turmoil.

You're scaring us, you four-eyed fuck.

Do these Brooklyn Halloween decorations even grasp our mortality?

Morning Spew for Night Owls—We're finally getting the affordable housing bill that Eric Adams tried to kill.

NEW EPISODE OF THE HELL GATE PODCAST We talk about a hot duck, a coup that will never end, school segregation, and THE KNICKS. LISTEN/WATCH! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7j...

Following the violent assault of a school dean in Brooklyn last week, the transit system announced a pause on its nightmare bus enforcement regime. hellgatenyc.com/eagle-mta-fa...

If 2025's major ballot prop theme was Yay Increase Multifamily Buildings Yugely (YIMBY), 2026's might be Fix All Streets and other Stuff Today (FASST). hellgatenyc.com/crash-course...

Nonprofits will get a head start on bidding for certain buildings, potentially creating a new pathway for affordable housing—despite real estate lobbyists' best efforts. hellgatenyc.com/copa-passed-...

Unearthed from a time capsule in a waste treatment facility, former Mayor Abe Beame had high hopes for the future. Way too high.

For this week's $20 Dinner banger, Scott takes us to Sheepshead Bay for some Soviet-era nostalgia from Stolovaya.

"I was released because I called the U.S. embassy. Regular Palestinians don’t have a get-out-of-jail card like that," Won told Hell Gate after being detained during an olive harvest.

The number of drivers who have racked up 16 or more speed camera tickets in a one-year period is spiking, right as legislation to slow them down comes up for a vote.

Morning Spew for Night Owls—What if Central Park's 68 horse carriages were replaced with old-timey-looking, battery-powered vehicles? An AI-fueled, 10-slide presentation deck from Vickie Paladino's office details the pitch. hellgatenyc.com/vickie-palad...

"As much as I love you, Brad, and I care about you, first and foremost, the Palestinian farmers who need to farm their land need access to their land. This needs to be the priority." hellgatenyc.com/idf-palestin...

In the aftermath of an ICE shooting and a litany of police blunders, Mayor Mamdani's allies on the left are calling on him to get rid of NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch once and for all. That and more on this week's Hell Gate Podcast: youtu.be/MfeAycy8wU8?...

Mayor Abe Beame had high hopes for the future of New York City when he placed a letter in a time capsule at a Staten Island wastewater recovery facility in 1976. Fifty years later, Mayor Zohran Mamdani opened the letter. hellgatenyc.com/mayor-abe-be...

Come January, they'll control 3 congressional seats, 4 state Senate seats, 9 Assembly seats and 4 New York City Council seats, and the New York City mayoralty. At their upcoming convention, they're setting their sights no lower than the presidency. hellgatenyc.com/nyc-dsa-aoc-...

A town hall with Mamdani's Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels and the New York Times's Nikole Hannah-Jones quickly turned tense. hellgatenyc.com/nikole-hanna...

The number of drivers who have racked up 16 or more speed camera tickets in a one-year period is spiking, right as legislation to slow them down comes up for a vote. hellgatenyc.com/superspeeder...

Ahead of Thursday's vote on a bill that would end the 334-year-old horse carriage industry in New York City, Republican City Councilmember Vickie Paladino has a vision for a horseless Central Park. hellgatenyc.com/vickie-palad...

Morning Spew for Night Owls—Our basketball gods have returned.

Oh, you weren't aware Hell Gate now makes mini-docs? Well, we do, and here's one about how Wisconsin residents fought back against a data center pitched by former Mayor Eric Adams. Hell Gate's Max Rivlin-Nadler reports:

Come January, they'll control 3 congressional seats, 4 state Senate seats, 9 Assembly seats and 4 New York City Council seats, and the New York City mayoralty. At their upcoming convention, they're setting their sights no lower than the presidency. hellgatenyc.com/nyc-dsa-aoc-...