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04.12.2025 23:06 โ ๐ 40 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@jessyedwards.bsky.social
Writer at Hell Gate! Pulitzer finalist! Tips: jessy@hellgatenyc.com Previously: Gothamist/WNYC, NBC New York, BK Reader
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04.12.2025 23:06 โ ๐ 40 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A ceiling collapse in a Crown Heights apartment over Thanksgiving weekend is the latest sign of neglect inside buildings owned by billionaire Joel Wienerโs Pinnacle Group.
Now, tenants are intensifying their calls to halt the current bankruptcy auction of 93 rent-stabilized Pinnacle buildings.
New York City, which currently has no full-scale casinos, is one step away from building three multibillion-dollar gambling complexes within 10 miles of each other.
01.12.2025 21:58 โ ๐ 44 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 7Nothing can possibly do justice to the incredible body language on display hereโMamdani'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.
21.11.2025 21:50 โ ๐ 355 ๐ 76 ๐ฌ 20 ๐ 10Two of these NYPD cops told me they hate their jobs because of the forced overtime and endless calls to deal with homelessness and mental health issues. They hoped Mamdani could help fix that.
06.11.2025 03:27 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Screencap of Hell Gate livestream with Max Rivlin-Nadler in the studio at left and Jessy Edwards, wearing a lavender beret and smiling while speaking into a clip-on microphone in an event hall.
The great @jessyedwards.bsky.social is reporting from the Curtis Sliwa election party for @hellgatenyc.com in a tasteful beret of her own! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKA4...
05.11.2025 01:37 โ ๐ 99 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1I hope youโre right about that!
05.11.2025 23:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Haha! Glad to share my beret collection with the viewers! Thanks for the kind words @joshuajfriedman.com
05.11.2025 23:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"Stubbornly idealistic" independent local journalism that's owned & run by the people working there? Yes! We love this work so much that Ruth Ann personally gave @hellgatenyc.com support for a dedicated podcasting studio, which they're naming The Ruth Ann Harnisch Studio. Join us in supporting them!
30.10.2025 15:03 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Where will you be tomorrow night when the NYC election results come in?
Perhaps at a bar with your friends.
Perhaps at home in the dark, bathed in the faint, unearthly glow of a screen.
Wherever you are, @hellgatenyc.com will be by your side.
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Exclusive! After 3 years sparring with their billionaire owners for a union contract, workers at the @nydailynews.com are finally on the precipice of inking a dealโand clawing back some of what theyโve lost since hedge-fund vampires took over the paper in 2021.
03.11.2025 15:13 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0As of this month, the TVs in NYC taxis are now playing national news from Newsmaxโthe ultra-conservative outlet known for pushing baseless election fraud claims.
Curb, the company that controls what's on the screens, announced the collab late September.
My favorite writers also happen to be my @hellgatenyc.com colleagues. RIP Blink Fitness.
09.10.2025 14:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This Bronx family went 6 weeks with no running water, gas or power. Instead of using all the tools at its disposal to restore the utilities, the City's HPD told them to leave.
An incredibly frustrating case illustrating how some NYC families are falling through the cracks.
Subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com, support worker-owned local journalism, and get your Spooky Bookstore Opening news days before right-wing corporate media publishes it with an โexclusiveโtag!
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Sophie, a 30-year-old social worker at Brooklyn Defender Services, had barely interacted with the org's boss before she was summoned to her office last week.
When Lisa Schreibersdorf asked her to lead a union-busting effort, she said she was shocked.
A researcher on the Hindutva movement told me the ads were likely bought with Indian taxpayer money.
"[The BJP] has long held these superpower ambitions for Modi, and in the absence of anything real to show for it, they're happy to pay a private, anonymous advertising firm to blast these around."
I tagged along on a tour of NYC rent-stabilized apartments hosted by @emilyassembly.bsky.social for Austrian Vice-Chancellor @andibabler.at, where the Austrian had some frank advice for NY lawmakers (and a warning for his constituents back home)
15.09.2025 18:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I told the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet his band's new album is his best yet, and he replied, "we don't necessarily improve as artists. We just don't."
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"If you have enough money to book Third Eye Blind and give us free drinks, you can afford to pay your workers."
At Instacartโs free concert last week, attendees weighed in on the companyโs campaign to block fair wage laws for its deliveristas (set to go in front of the City Council tomorrow)
Eternally grateful to the women who shared their stories for this piece, and for the team that worked so hard to build this story.
29.08.2025 13:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Two and a half years and $180,000 later, Aaron Alexis thought he did everything right on his way to opening his own licensed weed dispensaryโbut an abrupt announcement from the Office of Cannabis Management has left him "hopeless" and stranded in limbo.
18.08.2025 17:39 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A Hell Gate data analysis found the Parks Department cancels tree plantings near NYPD precincts due to cops parking on the sidewalk.
15.08.2025 17:46 โ ๐ 514 ๐ 179 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 11This upstate landfill is New Yorkโs largest emitter of methane; a man-made mountain piled high with trash from NYC & elsewhere. Itโs supposed to close at the end of the year. But a billion-dollar Texas-based corporation and the politicians they helped elect are fighting to keep it open until 2040.
13.08.2025 01:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0More than a century ago, a young, charismatic socialist with the gift of gab decided to run for mayor in his NY town. He campaigned on a platform of affordability: City-run grocery stores, cheap fares for streetcars, taxing the rich, & good government. Sound familiar?
11.08.2025 01:19 โ ๐ 77 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 4Andrew Cuomo has a new social media team. In the last week and a half, the former-governor's X accountโonce populated with policy boasts and handshake photosโappears to have been taken over by an acerbic, millennial attack dog.
11.08.2025 13:41 โ ๐ 79 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 5More than a century ago, a young, charismatic socialist with the gift of gab decided to run for mayor in his New York town. He campaigned on a platform of affordability: City-run grocery stores, cheap fares for streetcars, taxing the rich, and good government.
Sound familiar?
โ[Cuomoโs new logo] looks like he is copying Mamdani's color scheme. The tag line โto build a New NYCโ is odd if you try to say it out loud. It means he is building a โNew New York,โ which is what New York City is called in the cartoon โFuturama.โโ
06.08.2025 16:55 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0After I interviewed George Santos in May, he sent me a message saying he thought my story made him look like a โslob.โ I unpack that, and other complicated feelings about Santos and justice, here:
01.08.2025 20:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Rabbi Chanina Sperlin, a powerful player in NYC politics, was ordered to appear at Carl Miller's hearing this week, where his testimony is considered vital to overturning Miller's murder conviction. But the rabbi never showed up. Now, he could be held in contempt of court, fined or even arrested.
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