Episodes

  • The Sea of Cuomo & Other Institutional Failures

    The Sea of Cuomo & Other Institutional Failures
    May 23 2025
    This week the team talks over some of the business you’d rather not have to wade through: Andrew Cuomo’s appearance on the Bari Weiss podcast, which, for better or worse, is probably the longest we’ve heard Cuomo speak since the pandemic. And the latest in the long line of indignities that the tiny institutional body of the CCRB has weathered trying to hold cops accountable in NYC.

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    34 mins
  • Mayoral Forum Recap & Eggs Over Easy with George Santos

    Mayoral Forum Recap & Eggs Over Easy with George Santos
    May 17 2025
    At the Public Theater, the Hell Gate team somehow wrangled three politicians onto bar stools to get: blasted with an air horn, roasted for not knowing any Knicks players (other than Jalen Brunson), and scrutinized for how they’d deal with NYC not-so-hypotheticals as mayor. Scott Stringer, Brad Lander, and Zohran Mamdani shared the stage with some real camaraderie, and the team mulls over what went right, wrong, weird, and whether any of it even matters with Cuomo being Cuomo. Then, Jessy tells us about her brunch date with a Cameo star.

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    34 mins
  • Big Wins for the Knicks, Catholicism, and Hell Gate's Jessy Edwards

    Big Wins for the Knicks, Catholicism, and Hell Gate's Jessy Edwards
    May 9 2025
    What a week—for one, it seems like some cosmological force (new pope included) is on the Knicks's side. And how do we feel about a pope from Chicago? Hot or not? We also chat about mayoral candidate Brad Lander's bid for nuance, in an empty synagogue. Finally, we give a shoutout to our very own Jessy Edwards, who was announced as a finalist this week for a little thing known as a Pulitzer.

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    29 mins
  • What's Wrong With the NYPD's Gang Database

    What's Wrong With the NYPD's Gang Database
    May 2 2025
    Hell Gate's Nick Pinto discusses a new civil rights lawsuit that reveals the disturbing details of the NYPD's gang database, and what's behind the recent uptick in bogus arrests. And remember three years ago when Mayor Adams asked for photos of cops on their phones? Thanks to contributor Erin Durkin's FOIL request, we finally know what New Yorkers sent in. We also check in on the mayoral race and do a close read of some candidates' new ads.

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    37 mins
  • Does NYC Need a Lonely Mayor?

    Does NYC Need a Lonely Mayor?
    Apr 25 2025
    We break down some of our top stories this week, from Mayor Adams criticizing the right to due process (unless it's for himself), to what's going on with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, to the Cuomo campaign's latest gaffe. We also discuss "Writing on Raving," a new anthology about the rave scene in Brooklyn and beyond, with co-editors Zoë Beery and Geoffrey Mak.

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    43 mins
  • CuomoGPT: How a Garbled Housing Plan Gave Away the Game

    CuomoGPT: How a Garbled Housing Plan Gave Away the Game
    Apr 18 2025

    On this week's podcast, we discuss Cuomo using ChatGPT to help write his housing plan, and the state of the Democratic mayoral primary. Also, Vybz Kartel is free! And Hell Gate's Adlan Jackson was there for his Barclays Center show.


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    30 mins
  • The Mouse Episode

    The Mouse Episode
    Apr 11 2025
    It's finally the episode we know everyone's been waiting for—the mouse episode, where Hell Gate staffers discuss the various ways we've been traumatized by mice in our apartments. What New Yorker can't relate? Plus, we discuss Governor Hochul's efforts to exterminate discovery reform.

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    39 mins
  • Eric Adams: Liberation Day

    Eric Adams: Liberation Day
    Apr 4 2025
    Eric Adams is free—from his federal charges and the Democratic Party. We break down the dismissal of his corruption case, and how his decision to run for reelection as an independent could shake up the race.

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    39 mins