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The Fight Over Control of NYC’s Lifeguard Union Reaches NY’s Highest Court

Another season of closed beaches and limited pool hours looms as union infighting continues in the state's highest court.

February 21, 2024

Let’s Meet Up and Live Forever: A Day With Bryan Johnson in Brooklyn

New Yorkers wanted to know: How does one spend their eternal life? Or is cheating death enough?

February 21, 2024

Our 10 Best Guesses for Mayor Adams’s New Plan for the NYPD Robot

Hell Gate asked members of our subsidiary, Hell Gate Labs, to run some complex algorithms to produce strong hypotheses about what the K5's next assignment might be.

February 21, 2024

NYC’s Airbnb Law Has Thinned Out Listings. But Can It Bring Down Rents?

If all short-term rentals could be instantly converted to regular rental housing, it would nearly triple the city’s number of available units.

February 20, 2024

‘Young People Saved Me’: Lucy Sante on Gen Z, the Virgin Mary, and Drugs

Sante is a legend, incisive and unsentimental, and she does not soften her renowned critical eye when turning it selfward.

Hochul: Sorry I Joked About Doing to Canada What Israel Is Doing to Palestine

Listen, sometimes politicians say their blood-soaked fantasies out loud, and other links to start your short week.

February 20, 2024

Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Invite Brooklyn In. So Where’s the Show?

In "Giants," the couple's exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, diverse works are suffocated by a vague narrative of Black excellence.

February 16, 2024

Bounced from Shelter to Shelter, a Family of Asylum Seekers Struggles to Stay New Yorkers

An interview with a family that never imagined themselves in New York City, and now have nowhere else to go.

February 16, 2024

Three-Day Weekend Playlist

New songs from artists currently active in New York City.

February 16, 2024