“If I fall down the stairs I might be able to pay my rent,” one lady muttered as she walked out in protest

Story on tonight’s preliminary Rent Guidelines Board vote: nydailynews.com/2024/04/30/mil…

In the building where I'm currently blocked in by police, they won't let me out despite showing many of them my NYPD press pass, students chant as more are lead away in zip ties who'd been blocking 'Hinds Hall'

Friday night’s cultural outing via ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/29/nyr…

I can’t describe how surreal it is to learn this news while waiting for Donald Trump to walk into the courtroom and sit down in the exact spot Harvey Weinstein was when he was convicted and sentenced to 23 years in prison.

nycourts.gov/ctapps/Decisio…

I’m sorry but “reporters” posting outside agitators like this without adding context of their well-documented past of said agitation is essentially spreading misinformation by being a sucker. A good lesson in the dangers of parachute journalism, even if one’s own backyard.

“Because housing is one of the most limited and coveted resources in New York City, it’s an incredibly powerful motivator to bend students to your will,” said a law student on campus Tuesday. My report on evicted students. curbed.com/article/housin…

.Columbia Daily Spectator overnight reported the midnight deadline was pushed back campus admin another 48 hours, after administration cited 'important progress' in talks with student organizers.

These sleepless student journalists are following every twist and turn of this ⬇️⬇️

Go Sophia Lebowitz go!!!

Serious medical problems. A holdover eviction. An affordable housing shortage. And seemingly no way to access rental assistance:

Here's how quickly a New Yorker can come to the brink of homelessness

For Gothamist-WNYC 🎙
gothamist.com/news/heres-how…

Crossover event outside 100 Centre Street! “Asked about the fairness of Trump being on trial in Manhattan, where he’s an unpopular figure, Adams replied, ‘That is beyond my pay grade.’”
nytimes.com/live/2024/04/1…

A security guard tells me an est. 1,200 people are in line outside New York Coty Hall.

These are largely Black migrants here for a council hearing on the experiences of Black migrants.

The guard said there's never before been that many attendees for a hearing.

Just before 5 p.m. on Friday, the hour when craven officials the world over drop news they want to see buried, the NYPD announced that the officers who killed Kawaski Trawick will face no consequences at all for the killing. hellgatenyc.com/shame-upon-new…

“We Will See How This Goes”: Journalists Prepare to Cover Trump on Trial | Vanity Fair vanityfair.com/news/trump-tri…

NYC’s hottest eclipse club is the Green-Wood Cemetery: line around the block and managed to cop some glasses 😎

Almost every New Yorker I’ve interviewed today about the earthquake — even if they were 30 stories up in an office building — has said, “I thought it was the train.”

For a lot of human history, an earthquake followed a few days later by a total eclipse would be taken as a pretty good sign of the end times

YES THAT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE. Waiting for further information ⤵️

Did other people in Brooklyn feel that little earth shake?

Today management suddenly and unceremoniously fired our senior editor of audience engagement, our politics editor, a photo editor and some advertising staff for “financial reasons”.

BREAKING:

According to FOIA docs obtained by Hell Gate *subscribe today!*, the surveillance tech previewed by Mayor Eric Adams last week had a 25% (!!!) alarm rate during a pilot in the Bronx, with 85% of those yielding false positives.

Basically, it's useless.

hellgatenyc.com/nyc-ai-weapons…