'The students were not on their back feet, however, and the initiative was never with the administration. The protesters were uncowed by the threats.'

Nick Pinto on where else, Columbia.

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Hell Gate has now obtained video of NYPD officers getting a 'refresher course' on how to drive MTA buses they commandeered to take protesters to jail last week...and then drove over the Brooklyn Bridge (exceeding the bridge's weight limit).

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Will never be able to listen to Duke Ellington again without thinking that a 20-year-old student journalist is going to break in and give me an update on the Columbia encampment

Please join Adlan Jackson on this heartbreaking and mystifying tour of 5Pointz, the condo version, where those who enter the party room 'are doing so at their own risk.'

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Been listening to the game on a portable radio on this beautiful afternoon and man, Monica McNutt rules

Yes, Hell Gate *subscribe today!* confirms, the NYPD really DID have un-trained officers commander an MTA bus to take driver over the Brooklyn Bridge and to one police plaza.

'The cops were kind of joking around with each other, like, oh, I hope we make it.'

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New York state gave Adlan Jackson $1000/month to be an artist in NYC during the pandemic. It made him a better critic and helped him launch a culture desk at Hell Gate *subscribe today!*.

He reflects on how programs like this can help keep artists in NYC.

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IS THERE A CONSPIRACY OF OUTSIDE AGITATORS FUELING PROTESTS IN NYC AS LLEGED BY NYPD NEWS AND Mayor Eric Adams????

OR ARE COLLEGE KIDS JUST BUYING THE CHEAPEST, MOST DISPOSABLE TENTS????

A Hell Gate *subscribe today!* INVESTIGATION

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'It wasn't an overnight process—it's been months leading up to this failure. It's been months of systemic inequality, and of repression, of censorship.'

Over at Hell Gate *subscribe today!*, Columbia students speak out about what led to the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

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Many are saying....Knicks in four

I am being very cool and normal about the New York Knicks as they head into the playoffs hellgatenyc.com/knicks-in-four

You know you fucked up when even the NYPD is throwing you under the bus.

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NEW story:

Last year it looked like New York was finally going to take its climate goals seriously, by empowering its power authority to begin building publicly owned renewable energy.

The first contractor they chose to implement it?

McKinsey.

Oops!
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The Columbia University radio station is covering the situation on campus live: wkcr.org