Tired: Killing rats.
Wired: NOT killing rats.
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Lotta cars parked on City Hall grounds today for the Council’s stated meeting. Took a photo of one with a Blue Lives Matter flag before a member of the security detail told me I couldn’t be there & that “people don’t like it” when you photograph their cars…

For guys who huff and puff about the need for speedy justice from the courts, the mayor and the NYPD sure have fuck-all to say about the cops who killed Kawaski Trawick 5 years ago whose disciplinary case, entirely in their control, is still unresolved. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-sti…

Nonprofit news media ownership: not necessarily any better than corporate news media ownership!

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In today's Morning Spew, the NYPD asks its officers: WHAT ARE THOSE? hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-crack…

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'People talk about the decline of newspapers,' Newspaper Guild of Rochester chair Tracy Schuhmacher told Hell Gate, 'but the kind of support we’ve received tells us we still matter.'

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On the steps of City Hall right now, family and supporters of Kawaski Trawick are rallying to call for the officers who killed him in his home in 2019 ago to be fired. Five years later, and nearly a year after a departmental trial, the NYPD has yet to issue a discipline decision.

Yessss the J. Escobedo Shepherd profile of Dean Meminger is up now at Hell Gate *subscribe today!*! hellgatenyc.com/dean-meminger-…

Taps the sign: hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-bl…

Thinking about this image of an archipelago of prisons across hundreds of miles northern and western NY full of people locked inside wearing eclipse glasses, their faces up against the window trying to see the cosmic event taking place in the sky. hellgatenyc.com/9-incarcerated…

Eclipse content, Day 2: hellgatenyc.com/wilderness-ecl…

Two things can be true at once: Coolness is a hoax not to be pursued or trusted, and the bellyflopping failure of people with terrible politics to achieve coolness despite expending enormous effort and resources in their attempt is very funny: hellgatenyc.com/praxis-magazin…

I really appreciate that Hell Gate has assigned Caroline Haskins to be the party reporter on the 'worst party ever' beat hellgatenyc.com/praxis-magazin…

Why can't the NYPD release their body cam footage in the high-profile police shooting of Win Rozario – 12 days and counting – as quickly as they put together this purse-snatching reel?

sometimes you read beautiful local news storytelling with tears in your eyes and are like 'oh yeah, this is what we are fighting to save'
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Ok that was fun.

Steve Radice, a science teacher from Staten Island, explains how he, his wife and two sons came to be in the McDonald’s parking lot in Plattsburgh.

Lots of people recognize that the McDonalds in Plattsburgh is *the* spot for amplifying the spiritual vibrations triggered by a total solar eclipse.