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Nick Pinto
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Co-founder @hellgatenyc.com. Writing about cops, courts, jails, prisons and NYC. You may have known me on Twitter as @macfathom. On Signal at NickPinto.11
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Honestly feeling a little emotional about this.
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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On the occasion of @hellgatenyc.com publishing a revamped, updated, shiny new final FINAL version of the Table of Success, our interactive guide to the Eric Adams cinematic universe, I wrote something trying to pull it all together:

What *was* the Adams mayoralty?

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November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Catching a vibe…
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Spreading love and light through the universe.
Text exchange. Them: “People seem pissed/aghast.” Me: “The compound reaction I strive to evoke in all my work.”
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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October 29, 2005 Cuomo campaign press release that reads: "Italian American Leaders Across Staten Island Endorse Andrew Cuomo For Mayor of New York City Community leaders denounce Zohran Mamdani’s disrespect toward the Italian Community"
October 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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We posted video of @hellgatenyc.com's Zohran Mamdani podcast episode online, and the YouTube commentariat is absolutely LOVING it.

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"what a bunch of weak simp beta boys on this stage." "I just ask myself, why will people name a place Hell gate?" "Mamdani feels comfortable with Colombus Day erasure "Mamthani Sir Please don't Come these type o Devils Program 100%Devils Insha Allah Mamthani Sir Please Avoid this type of Devils Human Beings"
October 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com, support worker-owned local journalism, and get your NYC clowning renaissance news two months before the NYTimes tumbles to it!

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October 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com, support worker-owned local journalism, and get your NYC running boom news 23 months before NYTimes readers hear a word of it!

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October 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Fact Check: @hellgatenyc.com actually published the Table of Success *nine months before* the indictment because we have incredible news instincts and acute perspicacity.

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Part of a New York Times article that reads "After Mr. Adams was indicted, the news site Hell Gate created a guide to Mr. Adams’s inner circle, which included people who were under indictment or investigation. It was called 'The Eric Adams Table of Success.'"
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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September 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Cuomo spox Rich Azzopardi retweeting someone's X post which reads in part "Can't let zohran the terrorist Mamdani win."
September 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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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 “exclusive”tag!

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September 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Please
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I can't think of another photographer I'd rather have had with me at the weird sad underpopulated Cuomo election watch party last night than John Taggart, because this truly was the vibe. Click through for the full dose: hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
June 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Frog and Toad on a bike
June 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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LOL at Politico's newsletter framing here
June 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Excellent acoustics here on West Houston as the crowd spontaneously erupts into “Fuck Donald Trump!”
June 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.
June 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Happy fifth anniversary of the NYPD gratuitously beating this one guy with batons and then tossing me and my prominently displayed press credentials in the garbage and then knocking me around some more to all who celebrate!
June 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com and get your "how we got the story" interviews of journalists behind Pulitzer-recognized Rikers reporting two weeks before WNYC listeners do! hellgatenyc.com/pulitzer-fin...
May 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Deep in the 107-page civil complaint are some bizarre excerpts from NYPD training materials. One slide appears to raise questions (in a delightfully whimsical font) about whether Paul Pierce and Kendrick Perkins were flashing gang signs from the NBA hardwood.
Under a header in an art deco font that reads "Gang Members or Athletes," two pictures of Paul Pierce and Kendrick Perkins in their Celtics Jerseys flashing three fingers to indicate they've just sunk a three-point shot. The caption reads "Are these blood signs or are they just representing Boston?? Kids do emulate what they see..."
April 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM