Fresh Hell
Photos: How New Yorkers Are Keeping Cool Against the Backdrop of Certain Environmental Collapse
City residents are hitting the Big Apple’s beaches, pools, and parks to find some much-needed chill as the planet burns
Fresh Hell
Central Park’s Other Penguins Face Extinction
Aquatics programs in the city face an uncertain future. What does a community lose with them?
Porcelain New York
A Brighton Beach Bathroom to Remember
This is the domain of Hazel Chatman, a 75-year-old seasonal Parks Department worker who has been overseeing beach bathrooms for 28 years.
What's Your Deal
‘This is Everything for Us’: Old Timers Day at the Giglio Lift
What is the giglio? The literal answer is a massive metal spike plastered with religious iconography; the arguably more correct one is a mood and a lifestyle.
The Cops
NYC Gives Arrested Legal Observers a Check and a ‘Middle Finger’ to Make Their NYPD Lawsuit Go Away
The NYPD's behavior in Mott Haven was condemned in a lengthy Human Rights Watch report as a violation of constitutional rights and international human rights law.
The Cops
Guess Who’s Giving Away Guns in NYC
Hell Gate tried to attend an NYPD gun raffle. It didn’t go as planned.
The Cops
NYC’s Highest-Paid Corrections Captain Transferred Back to Rikers Island After Hell Gate Report
After lucrative freelance law-enforcement work, NYC’s highest-paid correction captain is back at work in NYC's chronically understaffed jails.
Cultural Capital
Washington Square Park is NYC’s True Religion
Washington Square Park is New York's greatest, weirdest gathering place, and since the pandemic began to ease up in 2021, it's only gotten weirder.
Fresh Hell
Hell Gate Pool Report: ‘It’s Not Cool’
Swimmers adjusted to a new, crowded, hot reality, but relief is on the way.
Power
Remember When People Thought Fireworks Were a Government Conspiracy?
Things were too fucked up to be explained by the slow drift of history, political dysfunction, and economic inequality.
New York Review of Blogs
For Pre-Launch Event Buzz, Invite The Guy Who Called The Iraqi People ‘Semi-Literate Primitive Monkeys’
Semafor’s here to help with ‘the crisis of trust in news,’ so here’s Tucker Carlson sponsored by the Knight Foundation.
Horoscopes
July Cancer Chaos is Upon Us
Bonus: We've got a full moon in Capricorn on July 13, which has some "facts don't care about your feelings" energy.