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My Eclipse Was Almost Certainly Better Than Your Eclipse

Trek through mud for a few hours and you too can be in the perfect spot.

April 9, 2024

Fashy Posturing and Rich-Kid Juvenilia? That’s Praxis (Magazine)

The group that wants to create an autonomous nation in the Mediterranean has made a magazine.

NYC Pregames Solar Eclipse With a 4.8 Magnitude Earthquake

The most important thing about the earthquake is that WE felt it.

April 5, 2024

How to Post Ourselves Into a Viral Crime Panic

A series of random attacks in Manhattan dozens of viral videos this week, heavy on fear-mongering.

March 29, 2024

Hell Gate Presents: March Madness of NYC Hot Takes 2024

After much deliberation, we will defend these to the death (even if we don't 100 percent believe in them).

March 22, 2024

Why This Long Island Roller Derby Team Is Taking on the Ban Against Trans Women in Sports

The VP of the Long Island Roller Rebels and a staff attorney for the NYCLU talk about suing Nassau County over its recent executive order.

March 22, 2024

Adams Administration Backpedals on Huge Cuts to Pre-K and 3-K Programs

"We're gonna resolve that issue," Schools Chancellor David Banks told the City Council.

March 18, 2024

The Department of Education, Formerly the Board of Education, Is Actually ‘NYC Public Schools’—For Now

The DOE's "brand refresh" comes as the Adams administration fights to maintain mayoral control over the school system.

Most Libraries Will Only Be Open Five Days a Week Under Mayor Adams’s Budget

"It is astounding to me that we're in a situation where we are seriously contemplating losing universal six-day service."

March 12, 2024