Nick Pinto

Humming a mournful "Midnight at the Oasis" to myself.

Crazy how @wnyc.org reporters did such amazing work they won a duPont award and the organization can't bear to name the people who actually did the work in the press release.

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A chart showing the vehicle search rate from Q1 2022 to Q3 2025, in which the search rate for Black motorists stopped by police is nearly 10 times that of white motorists, and the rate for Latino motorists is six times that of white motorists.

A big lawsuit filed today accuses the NYPD of a racist and unconstitutional regime of vehicle stops and searches disproportionately targeting people of color. The stops frequently lack probable cause and more than 96 percent don't result in a gun arrest.

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Do you enjoy media production? Radical politics? Times of upheaval?

What if I told you that on February 13, a bunch of smart people and also myself are going to be discussing MEDIA PRODUCTION AND RADICAL POLITICS IN A TIME OF UPHEAVAL?

Roll through!

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More signage at this rally in NYC in response to the latest ICE killing:

Demonstrators are filing out of Union Square and into the street now, filling 14th Street and heading west.

More signs in Union Square:

Some of the signs at this rally in the cold in Union Square this afternoon:

At a rally in Union Square right now, Council member @chiosse.bsky.social tells the crowd, “We certainly need to abolish ICE, but that’s not enough—we need Nuremberg trials.”

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

I used to live a block from where they just murdered that man. The people of Minneapolis have been rising to the occasion, beautifully and at great personal risk, for weeks now. If the rest of us can't, in this moment, do the same, I don't know what further obscenity will stir us from this path.

Paragraph from a NYTimes story: "Over the last two months, the New York Fire Department has found violations at seven PureGym locations, as reported in the New York City news site Hell Gate. PureGym, the department said, “failed to maintain means of egress free from obstructions or impediments,” as well as committed lesser transgressions like not installing proper exit signage or fixing a burned-out exit light."

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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.

Lots of heartbreaking, enraging, cortisol-dump-inducing images coming out of Minneapolis, but I'm stuck on this one, of a five-year-old in his preschool backpack just before being bundled into an ICE van and disappeared from his mother and brother and community.
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Hudson River Park Lets ICE Park Vans at Pier 40 A contract with the Trump administration has been a windfall for the park—plus more stories for your Wednesday.

The public trust that runs Hudson River Park is making money renting space to ICE to park its kidnapping vans on Pier 40.

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We're back with our weekly politics newsletter focusing on the first 100 days of the Mamdani administration.

This week? Toilet talk, another Adams fuck you, and strangely enough....more toilet talk.

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The Missing $2 Million Is Gone—And All Eyes Are on Frank Seddio Attorneys for two investors discovered that the $2 million they put into an escrow account was wired out the same day—and that some of the account's funds made their way to Seddio's law firm.

Some very interesting developments yesterday in the ongoing case of Brooklyn Dems macher Frank Seddio and the missing $2 million: The money: gone! And, per lawyers who have reviewed bank records, funds paid out of the escrow account before it closed to... Seddio!

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Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions? Experts and community trying to untangle mystery of outburst that saw water travel almost 10km overland into a bigger lake

Living in the age of possibly anthropogenic lake rapturing. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Arrest Warrant Issued in the Case of Frank Seddio and the Missing $2 Million The judge on the case ordered Seddio to stop calling him on his personal phone.

If you've been following the rollicking tale of Brooklyn Democratic Party bigwig Frank Seddio and $2 million in mysteriously missing escrow money, a new episode dropped today. It's a good one, featuring fresh revelations and, for the first time, an arrest warrant!

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Mamdani and Hochul Celebrate One Politically Controversial Initiative While Dodging Another At a press conference Monday, the mayor and governor avoided the central question that will define their relationship.

At a press conference to celebrate one year of congestion pricing, the the elephant in the room between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul was another policy question that pits the good of New Yorkers against a vocal minority: taxing the rich.

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three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

Mayor Mamdani Has Arrived On day one of the Mamdani administration, Hell Gate was there.

What happened on day one? A lot!

And Hell Gate was there for it all.

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Hell Gate's Favorite Blogs of 2025 The stories most beloved by Hell Gate's writers and editors in 2025.

You know, @hellgatenyc.com really did publish some great blogs this year:

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Hell Gate's Predictions for 2026 We can see the future. This is what next year holds in store.

If even half of this is accurate, 2026 is gonna be bananas:

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The Mayor Went Down to Georgia And hung out with some Trump-associated businessmen. Plus, some links.

We're gonna need a new წარმატების ცხრილი:

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A Queens Woman Describes What It’s Like to Be Held in Immigration Detention With Her First Grader In an affidavit filed from detention in Dilley, Texas, the woman describes filth, cruelty, medical neglect, and negligible schooling.

This one fucked me up.

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🚨DREAM JOB ALERT!🚨

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This morning, in federal court, Frank Seddio professed outrage at any suggestion he's conspired to help steal $2 million.

“I find it offensive, the kind of allegations that have been made by plaintiffs’ counsel in this matter," he told judge. "I thought I was reading a James Clancy novel!”