Authors

Max Rivlin-Nadler is a co-publisher of Hell Gate. He’s reported for Gothamist, The New York Times, Village Voice and NPR. You can find him walking his dog, Stiva, or surfing in the Rockaways.
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Chris is an editor and co-founder at Hell Gate. He spent a decade working for Gothamist, a year at the Village Voice, and has written for New York Magazine and Streetsblog.
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Nick Pinto is a writer living in Brooklyn. A former staff writer at The Village Voice, he has written for The NYTimes Magazine, Gothamist, Rolling Stone, The Intercept, and elsewhere.
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Katie Way is a writer-editor at Hell Gate. Previously, she was a senior staff writer at VICE. Her work has also appeared in The Nation, Lux Magazine, and MEL. She loves talking to strangers.
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Adlan is a co-owner of Hell Gate, and has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Pitchfork, Study Hall and more.
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Scott Lynch is a freelance food writer, photojournalist, and preschool receptionist. He loves New York City.
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Esther Wang is a cofounder of Hell Gate. Prior to Hell Gate, she was a senior political reporter at Jezebel.
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Erin Durkin is a New York City journalist who has worked for Politico, the New York Daily News and the Guardian.
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Zoë Beery is a freelance writer and nightlife harm reduction organizer based in Brooklyn. You can read more of her writing at zoebeery.com.
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Rebecca McCray is a Brooklyn-based journalist. You can find her work in the Guardian, New York Magazine, New York Focus, and elsewhere. She is a contributing writer for Ambrook Research.
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Julianne Escobedo Shepherd is a Xicana writer and editor currently at work on her first book, about growing up in Wyoming and the myth of the American West. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Caroline Haskins is a freelance reporter. Previously, she was a tech reporter for Business Insider, BuzzFeed News, and Motherboard/Vice.
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Angelica Ang is a multimedia journalist at the Columbia Journalism School, where she currently reports on stories based in New York City.
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Anna Oakes is a print and audio freelance reporter. She’s also a podcast producer.
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Aviva Stahl is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes about science and health at the intersection of politics and power.
View articlesElissa is a journalist based in Queens, where she writes about all things science along with a smattering of local news. You can find her work in Ambrook Research, Reuters, and elsewhere.
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Lily Goldberg is a writer and Citi Bike fanatic born and raised in New York City. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Brooklyn Rail, PAPER, No Depression, Dirt, and more.
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Mark Chiusano is a journalist covering New York life and politics. His most recent book is the George Santos biography "The Fabulist."
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Cole Louison is an upstate correspondent for the New York Times and a contributor to GQ, the New Yorker, and others. His next book is "The Brooklyn Banks."
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Michael Corvo is a native New Yorker now based in Los Angeles. He primarily covers basketball, golf, and Hollywood.
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David Meyer is a journalist based in Brooklyn and an editor for Streetsblog NYC.
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Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of forty books, including "Washington Bullets," and "The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South."
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The Knightscope K5 is a fully autonomous security robot for both outdoor and indoor use. They can currently be found in a vacant MTA storefront in Times Square.
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Joshua Needelman is a freelance writer living in Astoria who spends way too much time thinking about professional wrestling. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and more.
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Michael Louie is a freelance writer. He’s written for Giant Robot magazine, Maximum Rock ’n Roll, the San Francisco Guardian, the Fanzine, and other punk publications.
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Briana Brady is a freelance journalist and audio producer based in Brooklyn.
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Sammy Sussman is a freelance investigative reporter based in New York City.
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Claudia Gohn is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker based in New York City and Virginia.
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Will Bredderman is an award-winning investigative reporter. He previously worked for The Daily Beast, Crain's New York Business, the New York Observer, and the Bay Ridge Courier.
View articlesJared Bozydaj is a writer in New York. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Bard Prison Initiative in literature and the humanities and has facilitated programs for incarcerated people.
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Selena Ross is a Brooklyn-based reporter whose work has appeared frequently in Canadian newspapers, as well as in the Washington Post, the Guardian US and on This American Life.
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Anna Merlan is a journalist and the author of Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power.
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Sophia Lebowitz writes and makes films about New York City and is a staff reporter at Streetsblog.
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Jessica McKenzie is an associate editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She also writes an outdoorsy newsletter called Pinch of Dirt.
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Charlie Dulik is a tenant organizer living in Brooklyn. He has also written for the New Republic, GQ, the Baffler & the New York Review of Architecture.
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Nick DeMarchis is a software engineer and writer living in Brooklyn who focuses on the human impact of technology.
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Eamon Levesque is a writer and creative director living in Brooklyn. His past work has appeared in GQ, the Daily Beast, Jacobin, and others. Follow him at @eamonl.bsky.social
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Sanya Mansoor is a journalist based in Brooklyn. Her reporting focuses on the domestic fallout of U.S. foreign policy and immigration. She has written for TIME, The Intercept, The Guardian and The AP.
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Keenan Chen is a freelance data journalist. Previously, he was a senior researcher at The Information Futures Lab at Brown University and First Draft News. You can follow him at @kcinbk.bsky.social
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Lauren Hakimi is a journalist in Brooklyn. She has written for BuzzFeed News, Salon, Bon Appétit, the Forward, the New York Jewish Week, City Limits, and more.
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Benny is a freelance writer and the managing editor of STATIC Mag, WNYU's music publication.
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