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"After being installed in 20 subway stations for 30 days, Evolv's scanners set off false positives 118 times, found just 12 knives—a 0.44 percent hit rate—and failed to detect a single firearm."

"And then Adams got up, to a chorus of boos, which was quickly drowned out by the DJ playing his walk-up music, 'Empire State of Mind.'"

I swear I tried my best to find joy in the Timothée Chalamet Lookalike Contest hellgatenyc.com/timothee-chala…

The winner, 21-year-old Staten Island native Miles Mitchell, took a position that the real Chalamet has yet to take: "Free Palestine" hellgatenyc.com/timothee-chala…

Salute to Louis Molina, one of the best to ever do it. hellgatenyc.com/dcas-molina-co…

Eric Adams in 2023, to an 84-yr-old tenant advocate whose family survived the Holocaust: "Don't stand in front like you treated someone that’s on the plantation that you own." Adams in 2024, facing federal charges, re Trump: "Dial down the temperature." hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-sni…

"And the biggest offender the cameras found? Illegally parked cars within a block of an NYPD precinct, where virtually not tickets were issued at all."

oops, *no tickets

the Sphere has finally entered the mayoral race

We're trying something new at Hell Gate *subscribe today!* where every article will now have a "Nick's Corner" segment at the end where I bring my expertise and insight to bear on topics at hand. Appreciate this extra context on local issues? Let us know in the comments! hellgatenyc.com/nycs-halloween…

"Aperitivo is more sociable than a nightclub, where it's really loud and not necessarily easy to meet or talk to people you're not already friends with, or hooking up with in the bathroom. But people hook up in the bathroom here too." hellgatenyc.com/leave-your-apa…

"And yet, at this point, with the police clearly on their way, with the train virtually empty, with no one in real danger, the defendant's chokehold on Jordan Neely was just beginning. The defendant held Mr. Neely in a chokehold for another five minutes and 53 seconds."

"We all know the work needs to be done, but shutting it down for this crazy length of time doesn't make any sense. It's just easier for them to pull this type of stunt on the Rockaways."

A voter: "I know when they try to push these proposals on to people during the general election, most likely it's one of those things you don't want to vote for."

.Street Vendor Project shared what the City Council can do to protect undocumented street vendors from deportation, in the wake of the passage of Prop 2 (which gives DSNY police the ability to criminalize street vendors) and Trump's promise of mass deportations. hellgatenyc.com/street-vendors…

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His majority-Asian district voted for Trump (and for Lee Zeldin, and Curtis Sliwa). So how does Ron Kim, a progressive Democrat, keep winning? Check out our Q&A: hellgatenyc.com/how-democrat-r…

will be much less active here moving forward, find me on bluesky instead bsky.app/profile/esther…