Attention LES Trader Joe’s Shoppers: These Workers Just Launched a Union Drive

"They tell us, oh, we're raking in record profits these days."

Purp Wants You to Bop Along to Some Club Beats

Welcome to Leave Your Apartment, a regular column in which Hell Gate asks one in-the-know New Yorker where to go out in the next two weeks.

Bloomberg Is Back (to Using His Billions to Manipulate Democracy)

And other news to start your day

The Police Budget Prospers As the Police Watchdog Budget Starves

While the NYPD is already $100 million over budget on overtime alone, the City's police watchdog says its own skeletal budget "does not allow the CCRB to function properly."

Hell Gate Presents: March Madness of NYC Hot Takes

We don't 100 percent stand by all of these—but we will defend them if we have to.

NYC Taxpayers Clean Up Yet Another Mess Created by Cops

And more news for your Tuesday.

The Tacky Weed Bodega Aesthetic Is Actually ‘Old-School’ NYC Vernacular

"They're like outsider art in regards to visual branding," one professor told us.

We ❤️ NYC: 💩

Although the campaign is striving to win hearts and minds of New Yorkers, it hasn’t even won control of the @weheartnyc handle on Twitter.

Eric Adams: Americans Are Frogs Boiling in Godless Water

And more links to start your week!

Bruce Springsteen’s Diehard Fans Feel Betrayed by ‘Mortgage Payment’ Ticket Prices: ‘I Feel Like I Lost a Family Member’

The Boss is a working class hero. What happens when the working class can no longer afford to see him play?

Hell Yeah: Chinatown Mainstay Big Wong Expands to Williamsburg

The Riis Beach Goldfish Have Actually Been Rehomed

And more fishy links for your Friday.