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hellgatenyc.com Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · Nov 21
Nothing can possibly do justice to the incredible body language on display here—Mamdani's rigid spine, his hands clasped tightly to prevent them from punching a hole in the Oval Office window and jumping out of it, Trump repeatedly touching Mamdani's arm, smiling at him like the son he's never had.
Wow, President Trump Fucking LOVES This Mamdani Guy
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November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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🔥 "F U @nytimes.com. the New York Times editorial board and New York Times publisher have affirmed that the words 'New' and 'York' are just part of a brand name. any *actual* connection between that paper and this city has long since been eliminated" @olbermann.bsky.social
screen grab from HellGateNYC, which lambasted NYT for being a feckless shitposter doing an end-run endorsement/non-endorsement of Cuomo
July 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
sadfrancisco.bsky.social
NY governor Kathy Hochul is making hiring decisions at CUNY’s Hunter College now #palestinestudies #huntercollege #hellgatenyc
February 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
atlelainesong.bsky.social
I am reading hellgatenyc for the first time.
September 16, 2026 at 8:39 AM
franklanguage.bsky.social
The City Caught a DOC Employee Illegally Handing Over an Immigrant to ICE hellgatenyc.com/illegally-ha... @hellgatenyc
The City Caught a DOC Employee Illegally Handing Over an Immigrant to ICE
And other links to start your Friday.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"I believe the way forward looks like collectives and worker-owned publications."

100000%. I subscribe to a few newsletters but it's easier to go "Hey, Hellgatenyc/Defector/Splinter/etc has stuff I like, I'll subscribe" instead of deciding I like ONE person's newsletter enough to cough up $5/mo.
October 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
#hellgatenyc thinks so too: https://hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-is-president-trumps-puppet-now/?ref=updates-newsletter

#FuckEricAdams
Mayor Adams Is President Trump’s Puppet Now
"Groveling to the president really pays off these days."
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February 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
franklanguage.bsky.social
Finally! Some Noisy Helicopters Might Be Banned in Like, Half a Decade hellgatenyc.com/noisy-helico... @hellgatenyc
Finally! Some Noisy Helicopters Might Be Banned in Like, Half a Decade
Plus: "Jaxson Dart," Lorde, wildfires, and more links for your weekend.
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April 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
guidoo.bsky.social
good interview, yay Brad!
Screenshot HellGateNYC: We're in such a weird position right now where members of the business community are now thinking that they're gonna throw their weight behind Adams again. What do you think of that? [Lander laughs for about five seconds. Catches breath.] I genuinely find this hilarious. Like, they lit $20 million on fire, and all it did was boost Zohran's numbers. And in no small part because they corrupted their own souls by supporting a person they know to be a corrupt, abusive asshole. What are they gonna do now? Do they think they can rehabilitate Eric Adams, who's sold our city out in a way that's so humiliating you never could have believed it?
June 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
what if we prefer Gothamist or hellgatenyc more? (they’re all good people doing a great job).
July 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
@atthenius.bsky.social @jehiah.cz Also, please please PLEASE follow @ap.brid.gy so that those of us on Mastodon can follow you as well. Journalists, too (looking at you, various nyc streetsblog, hellgatenyc, and thecity journos). I've sent lots of requests to people through the bridge, but they […]
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February 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
@noneck.org Yeah, it's bullshit. https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/115424488516760412

(the article is from HellgateNYC)
Andres (@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it)
Attached: 1 image @radleybalko.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy Ugh, what scumbags.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
multithinker.bsky.social
When a small town resists the billionaire bulldozer & wins it's not just a local victory—it's a blueprint for global defiance. From Upstate NY to Gaza unity matters. Resistance is the real patriotism. #TrumpResistance #PeoplePower #HellGateNYC #GrassrootsVictory #HumanRights #Solidarity #StopFascism
April 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
doctecazoid.bsky.social
Via HellGateNYC (subscription required) ...

hellgatenyc.com/mayoral-deba...
"What I don't have in experience I make up for in integrity, and what you don't have in integrity, you could never make up with experience," Mamdani told Cuomo. "If you think the problem in this city is that my rent is too low, vote for [Cuomo]," Mamdani said in response to Cuomo's nonsensical plan to means-test rent stabilized apartments. "If you know the problem in this city is that your rent is too high, vote for me." A Fox News poll, released just before the debate, showed Mamdani with 52 percent of support of all voters, the first time he has cracked 50 percent since his victory in June.
October 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
@johnwtomac.com Yeah, okay, #hellgatenyc agrees here..

https://hellgatenyc.com/15-mph-e-bike-crackdown/?ref=morning-spew-newsletter

#bikeNYC
On Wednesday, Mayor Eric Adams announced that his administration would be moving ahead with a new rule limiting all e-bikes to a 15 mph speed limit. The rule will take effect on October 24, and will apply to "e-bikes, e-scooters, and pedal-assist commercial bicycles," most of which are manufactured to travel at a top speed of 20 mph. Mayor Adams's decision to crack down on immigrant delivery cyclists at a time when the Trump administration is looking for any pretext to deport as many people as possible, is best seen as the most recent gambit in a long parade of last-ditch attempts to pander to his loudest and most reactionary constituents. Need proof? Well, you could point to the fact that the new speed limit flies in the face of data from the City's own Department of Transportation on just how "dangerous" e-bike riders are: through April 30 of this year, just 0.6 percent out of the 2,992 total reported pedestrian injuries in the City were caused by e-bikes. Or you could note that the New Yorkers who commented on the new rule overwhelmingly testified against it, or that the Adams administration has far overstepped their statutory authority in setting the speed limit (state legislation designates the City Council as the body responsible for setting speed limits on e-bikes.)
September 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
And here's HellgateNYC weighing in on the ballot props.
https://hellgatenyc.com/three-ballot-proposals-nyc-explainer/?ref=morning-spew-newsletter & https://hellgatenyc.com/nyc-housing-ballot-proposals-guide-2025-election/?ref=morning-spew-newsletter
Proposal 1 A "yes" vote on Proposal 1 would retroactively rubberstamp an expansion that has already occurred of an Olympic sports complex, the Mount Van Hoevenberg facility in Adirondack Park, onto protected state forest land. In exchange, New Yorkers would get even more protected lands (the Olympic Regional Development Authority would pay for an additional 2,500 acres to be added to Adirondack Park). A "no" vote would leave the sports complex in violation of the state constitution. According to John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, voters "can think of this as a technical correction that ratifies the long ago expansion into state forest by the state Olympic Regional Development Authority." He added that it's "one is supported by enviros because it makes it harder for ORDA to wriggle out of a commitment to add 2,500 acres in new forever wild land to compensate for ORDA using 323 acres for bobsled runs and whatnot." "This is the best-case scenario for both the human and ecological communities of the Adirondacks: It protects wildlands while an historic attraction continues to host world-class sporting events, drawing athletes and visitors from the region and around the world," the Adirondack Council, a nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to Adirondack Park, wrote in a blog post endorsing the proposal. Opponents of the proposal, like Soft Power Vote, argue that it will give the Olympics complex a pass and "privatize what could have stayed protected land. Proposal 5 Proposal 5 concerns the City's official map. Currently, every borough president is in charge of maintaining their own set of paper maps that, as the CITY wrote, define "the locations and legal boundaries of streets, parks, public places and other public land." Who! Knew! Proposal 5 would do away with this system and create one unified, digital map of the city consolidated under the Department of City Planning. A "yes" vote on this proposal means voting in favor of a digital map, and a "no" vote means voting in favor of keeping the current system. Amit Bagga, the campaign director for Yes on Affordable Housing, told Hell Gate that the choice to change the City's map system is an obvious one. "It's 2025—the City's 8,000 maps should be digitized, unified, and easily accessible. It's a no-brainer, and will help fast-track delivery of affordable housing along with Props 2 through 4." Kaehny of Reinvent Albany agreed. "This is a long overdue modernization measure and would end reliance on the borough president's Topographical Bureaus, which were a great innovation a hundred years ago," he said. Oooh, burn! We couldn't find anyone who meaningfully opposed this ballot proposal—but if you or someone you know is a disgruntled cartographer who vehemently disagrees with digitizing the City maps, please get in touch. Proposal 6 would move New York City's primary and general election dates to even years, syncing up our local election cycle (2021 and 2025, most recently) with the federal presidential election cycle (2020 and 2024). A "yes" vote for Proposal 6 would signal a desire for even-year elections (more on that later) and a "no" vote is a vote to keep the current system in place. This is probably the most controversial proposal of the three. Earlier this month, the good government group Citizens Union released a report in favor of Proposal 6 which found that syncing state elections with the national cycle would significantly increase New York City's depressed voter turnout. Both Common Cause and Reinvent Albany have weighed in in favor of Proposal 6. "We strongly support this measure to move City elections to even years, which have much higher turnout because of presidential elections and gubernatorial elections. We are convinced by the extensive research presented by Citizens Union that changing to even years would increase voter turnout, which we think is a good thing," Kaehny said. He noted that a "yes" vote for this proposal is only the first step—actually changing the election cycle would require the state legislature to pass a bill twice in consecutive sessions and then it would need to be approved by voters statewide—but said it was still "politically important" to convince state reps that New Yorkers want this. But opponents of the proposal worry that if Proposal 6
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
0gs.bsky.social
this interview seriously feels like LLM-hallucinated Brad Lander slashfic. (i guess he's "slashed" with NYC, or however it works). it is absolutely glorious that it is real
brad lander trying to escape while still inspiring his swarming, heterogenous fandom, all while conducting an interview with hellgatenyc
June 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
That quote about "I pay a lot of tax dollars and they won't even let me access it!" is pretty rich, too. I feel the same way about public transit - we fund a lot of it with MY tax dollars, and I have to pay a FEE to ride it? What in the hell is this bullshit?! 😠

Where's my #hellgatenyc article??
May 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
A: "Oh my god, he is *you*. If you were mayor, the first two things you'd do is fill on a pothole in a bike lane, and install bidets in your office."

Me: "pretty much, yep!"

#nyc #mamdani #hellgatenyc
 Brooklyn had in 2008, but also—finally!—bidets in those aforementioned five bathrooms. "We will be installing a few bidets into Gracie Mansion," Mamdani said on Tuesday, adding with a laugh, "That's an aspirational hope; we'll see if we can get in done." If installing a bidet is "aspirational," where does that leave universal child care?  Perhaps Mamdani is referring to the cost of buying five bidets—the TOTO Washlet S5 (the one I own) currently retails for a cool $587.70 on BidetKing.com, quite the purchase for someone whose mantra is "affordability." (The S5 may also not fit on Gracie Mansion's existing toilets, thus requiring new, elongated toilets, an additional expense to both purchase and install—we've asked the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, the
January 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
this whole thing is too funny

https://hellgatenyc.com/tried-gross-viral-nyc-subway-recipes/ #hellgatenyc
I Tried Five of the Subway's Gross Viral 'Recipes' and Survived (Barely)
I fed "Brieghetti Pie" to my friends. I hope they will forgive me.
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August 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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July 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
Not that anyone asked, but by general guide is - I will post paywalled articles to publications that you should subscribe to (eg, HellgateNYC). I will try to include a screenshot of the relevant paragraph(s) that I'm focused on, though, for people outside NYC who obviously aren't going to […]
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May 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I went into my writer's crockpot to cook up something that I think Joseph Heller or Phillip Roth would like: southsidepride.com/2025/10/28/t... I've been binge-listening to the HellGateNYC podcast
The race for Mayor – Southside Pride
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October 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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New York Public Radio lays off 20 staff members and cuts two podcasts from its studio division; three additional staffers took voluntary buyouts (Max Rivlin-Nadler/hellgatenyc)

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October 7, 2023 at 5:40 PM
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Aetna, MTA, and the Retirees association of Local 100 all are saying that they're not receiving complaints. We'll we're bringing receipts. #twu100 #Aetna #MTA facebook.com
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