Nick Pinto

Nick Pinto served two tours as staff writer at the Village Voice. His reporting has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Gothamist, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Intercept, and elsewhere.
Driving a Car With Fraudulent or Obscured Plates Is Already Illegal But the City Council Wants to Make It Double Illegal
"There appears to be an issue with enforcement."
A Friend Remembers Joshua Valles, Who Died After Suffering a Skull Fracture on Rikers
"He had people who cared for him," says Denise Barkley.
The Adams Administration’s Clumsy Campaign to Downplay Violence on Rikers Island Backfires
A federal judge no longer trusts jail officials to give an accurate picture of violence in City jails, and may weigh taking the jails out of City control altogether.
Cover-Ups, Half-Truths, Secrecy and Contempt: Watchdog Report Shows How Rikers Officials Are Making Court Oversight Look Like a Joke
The monitor's latest report describes a jail system that tries to conceal its ongoing violence and blocks outside efforts to improve conditions.
City Is Taking Air Quality Crisis Very Seriously, Mayor Adams Says On His Way to Hang With Robert De Niro
A mayor more accustomed to photo-ops than emergencies struggled to find his footing during the air emergency
A Taxonomy of the Names of the Roses in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Tag yourself, we're Comtesse Festetics Hamilton.
Rikers Officials Said Joshua Valles Had a Heart Attack. His Autopsy Revealed a Fractured Skull
"But for the bail rollbacks, Joshua would have been alive today."
Why Is ‘NYPD Leadership’ Partying With a Far Right-Affiliated Real Estate Firm Tonight?
They'll be at a cocktail party hosted by the real estate firm Exodus Capital, which recently hired Gavin Wax, the president of the New York Young Republican Club.
The NYPD Took This Dog Into Custody Because His Owner Filmed the Police
Harvey’s owner is joined by 2,746 other humans who have been arrested for filming the NYPD in the last two years alone.
‘Outside Agitators’ Brought a Molotov Cocktail to Neely Vigil, Says Administration That Also Keeps Insisting Kids Are Buying Fentanyl Weed at Bodegas
The mayor and the police do not make it easy to take their claims on faith.









