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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
Honestly feeling a little emotional about this.
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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?

hellgatenyc.com/what-was-the...
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Catching a vibe…
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Spreading love and light through the universe.
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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October 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
We posted video of @hellgatenyc.com's Zohran Mamdani podcast episode online, and the YouTube commentariat is absolutely LOVING it.

youtu.be/sB-fNr6XM9M?...
October 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Fact Check: @hellgatenyc.com actually published the Table of Success *nine months before* the indictment because we have incredible news instincts and acute perspicacity.

tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
September 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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September 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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
Please
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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
June 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
LOL at Politico's newsletter framing here
June 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Excellent acoustics here on West Houston as the crowd spontaneously erupts into “Fuck Donald Trump!”
June 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.
June 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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
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
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.
April 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM