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December 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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This time on Hell Gate's nightlife column LEAVE YOUR APARTMENT: Brooklyn rapper OG recommends cassette shopping and live hip-hop.
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OG Wants You to Touch the Magic This New Year's Eve
The Bed-Stuy based rapper recommends some cassette shopping and live hip-hop to bring in 2026.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This time on Hell Gate's nightlife column LEAVE YOUR APARTMENT: Brooklyn rapper OG recommends cassette shopping and live hip-hop.
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After a year in which we spent a lot of time focusing on electoral politics, we've definitely got victory and defeat on the brain.
So without further ado, here's our final verdict on who's up and who's down as 2025 draws to a close.
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So without further ado, here's our final verdict on who's up and who's down as 2025 draws to a close.
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Hell Gate's 2025 Winners and Losers
We were keeping score all year.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
After a year in which we spent a lot of time focusing on electoral politics, we've definitely got victory and defeat on the brain.
So without further ado, here's our final verdict on who's up and who's down as 2025 draws to a close.
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So without further ado, here's our final verdict on who's up and who's down as 2025 draws to a close.
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Capping off our series on what Zohran Mamdani can accomplish in his first 100 days, here's a grab bag of actionable policy ideas ranging from immigration and homelessness to culture, schools, parks and reproductive justice.
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Everything Else Mamdani Should Do in His First 100 Days
Should be easy, right?
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December 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Capping off our series on what Zohran Mamdani can accomplish in his first 100 days, here's a grab bag of actionable policy ideas ranging from immigration and homelessness to culture, schools, parks and reproductive justice.
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Police reform is one of the most fraught initiatives Zohran Mamdani could undertake as mayor.
What could he do to meaningfully change the NYPD without triggering a politically costly firestorm?
Quite a bit!
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What could he do to meaningfully change the NYPD without triggering a politically costly firestorm?
Quite a bit!
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What Can Zohran Mamdani Do to Change the NYPD?
Whether a conflict with the NYPD can be avoided remains to be seen, but observers that Hell Gate spoke to identified a number of modest but meaningful steps the mayor can take early in his term.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Police reform is one of the most fraught initiatives Zohran Mamdani could undertake as mayor.
What could he do to meaningfully change the NYPD without triggering a politically costly firestorm?
Quite a bit!
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What could he do to meaningfully change the NYPD without triggering a politically costly firestorm?
Quite a bit!
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Kathy Hochul Promised More Clemencies—Where Are They?
The governor could change the lives of Sara Kielly and Assia Serrano with the stroke of her pen.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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At first, women in NY prisons were hopeful about their chances for commutation under the state's first female governor.
Now, said Sara Kielly, "when you mention a clemency application around here, or that you hope that she'll follow through on her promises, people roll their eyes."
Now, said Sara Kielly, "when you mention a clemency application around here, or that you hope that she'll follow through on her promises, people roll their eyes."
Kathy Hochul Promised More Clemencies—Where Are They?
The governor could change the lives of Sara Kielly and Assia Serrano with the stroke of her pen.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
At first, women in NY prisons were hopeful about their chances for commutation under the state's first female governor.
Now, said Sara Kielly, "when you mention a clemency application around here, or that you hope that she'll follow through on her promises, people roll their eyes."
Now, said Sara Kielly, "when you mention a clemency application around here, or that you hope that she'll follow through on her promises, people roll their eyes."
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December 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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From Andrew Cuomo's campaign flameout, to a bizarre prison hoax, to cops staring at their phones, here are the stories that garnered the most eyeballs at Hell Gate in 2025.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
From Andrew Cuomo's campaign flameout, to a bizarre prison hoax, to cops staring at their phones, here are the stories that garnered the most eyeballs at Hell Gate in 2025.
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For perhaps the final time: Where in the world is Eric Adams, and why?
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The Mayor Went Down to Georgia
And hung out with some Trump-associated businessmen. Plus, some links.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
For perhaps the final time: Where in the world is Eric Adams, and why?
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Morning Spew for Night Owls—Elise! Elise! Why? What happened?
And other links to start your holiday week.
And other links to start your holiday week.
Elise We’ll Have the Memories
And other links to start this holiday week.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Morning Spew for Night Owls—Elise! Elise! Why? What happened?
And other links to start your holiday week.
And other links to start your holiday week.
A disturbing account from a Queens woman describes immigration detention with her first-grade daughter.
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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.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A disturbing account from a Queens woman describes immigration detention with her first-grade daughter.
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The state, represented by the office of Attorney General Letitia James, plans to ask judges to dismiss up to 500 prison sexual assault cases filed against it under the Adult Survivors Act, Hell Gate and New York Focus have learned.
A Judge Dismissed a Prison Sex Abuse Lawsuit Over Typos—and the State Is Looking to Toss Hundreds More
The state plans to ask a court to dismiss some 500 prison sexual assault lawsuits for not strictly abiding by filing requirements.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The state, represented by the office of Attorney General Letitia James, plans to ask judges to dismiss up to 500 prison sexual assault cases filed against it under the Adult Survivors Act, Hell Gate and New York Focus have learned.
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Mamdani about to announce another Biden alum for his City Hall—Sam Levine, the former director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
He'll be named the commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, which looks to play a major role in Mamdani's pro-worker agenda.
He'll be named the commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, which looks to play a major role in Mamdani's pro-worker agenda.
December 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Mamdani about to announce another Biden alum for his City Hall—Sam Levine, the former director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
He'll be named the commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, which looks to play a major role in Mamdani's pro-worker agenda.
He'll be named the commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, which looks to play a major role in Mamdani's pro-worker agenda.
Elise! Elise! Why? What happened?
And other links to start your holiday week.
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And other links to start your holiday week.
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Elise We’ll Have the Memories
And other links to start this holiday week.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Elise! Elise! Why? What happened?
And other links to start your holiday week.
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And other links to start your holiday week.
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In March, Queens DA Melinda Katz made a big deal about indicting cops who allegedly robbed and groped a sex worker.
Last week, her office quietly dismissed the case—and blamed discovery reform for letting the cops walk.
Last week, her office quietly dismissed the case—and blamed discovery reform for letting the cops walk.
The Queens DA Just Let Two Cops Charged With Preying on Sex Workers Walk
The DA made a big deal about indicting cops for robbing a sex worker this March. Last week, her office quietly let the case get dismissed.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
In March, Queens DA Melinda Katz made a big deal about indicting cops who allegedly robbed and groped a sex worker.
Last week, her office quietly dismissed the case—and blamed discovery reform for letting the cops walk.
Last week, her office quietly dismissed the case—and blamed discovery reform for letting the cops walk.
One Tuesday morning earlier this month, Michael Hassin decided to record how many giant trucks broke NYC's truck route rules and unlawfully rumbled past his apartment on the Lower East Side.
By noon, he'd already filed 55 complaints into the 311 portal.
By noon, he'd already filed 55 complaints into the 311 portal.
Huge Trucks Constantly Take This Illegal Short Cut. The NYPD Doesn't Seem to Care
Michael Hassin has made it his mission to stop Manhattan-bound trucks from leaving the truck route and using Clinton Street to get to East Houston Street.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
One Tuesday morning earlier this month, Michael Hassin decided to record how many giant trucks broke NYC's truck route rules and unlawfully rumbled past his apartment on the Lower East Side.
By noon, he'd already filed 55 complaints into the 311 portal.
By noon, he'd already filed 55 complaints into the 311 portal.
The craziest case in the Brooklyn courts, involving power broker Frank Seddio and $2 million in missing escrow money, keeps getting crazier.
Yesterday, two more judges recused themselves, bringing the total judges who have been assigned the case to FIVE.
Yesterday, two more judges recused themselves, bringing the total judges who have been assigned the case to FIVE.
Judges Keep Dropping Like Flies in the Case of Frank Seddio and the Missing $2 Million
Two more judges have recused themselves from the (somehow still ongoing) suit involving the Brooklyn Dems power broker.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The craziest case in the Brooklyn courts, involving power broker Frank Seddio and $2 million in missing escrow money, keeps getting crazier.
Yesterday, two more judges recused themselves, bringing the total judges who have been assigned the case to FIVE.
Yesterday, two more judges recused themselves, bringing the total judges who have been assigned the case to FIVE.
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We asked the experts, and they had a lot of ideas: "Tow some MTA workers' cars in Downtown Brooklyn as a statement!"
How Mayor Mamdani Should Run the Streets of New York City
Here's what Mamdani should do on day one to make the city less car-centric and more friendly to pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit riders.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We asked the experts, and they had a lot of ideas: "Tow some MTA workers' cars in Downtown Brooklyn as a statement!"
New York City's signature climate law needs someone to actually enforce it. Here's how incoming Mayor Mamdani can hit the ground running.
How Mayor Mamdani Can Revive NYC's Most Important Climate Law
New York City's signature climate law needs someone to actually enforce it. Here's how incoming Mayor Mamdani can hit the ground running.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
New York City's signature climate law needs someone to actually enforce it. Here's how incoming Mayor Mamdani can hit the ground running.