Nick Pinto
@nickpinto
Co-founder @. Writing about cops, courts, jails, prisons and NYC. You may have known me on Twitter as @macfathom. On Signal at NickPinto.11
The media and political establishment howling that Mamdani violated sacred norms of moderation, fairness, sensitivity to all New Yorkers, and keeping a narrow municipal focus when he talked about war crimes was awfully quiet while all this other stuff was going on: hellgatenyc.com/how-mamdani-...
The @hellgatenyc.com team went to the movies in the middle of the workday yesterday so we could participate in the discourse, and participating I am. hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-od...
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Renewing my heartfelt personal entreaty to Andrew Cuomo contained in the back half of this blog. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-m-cuo...
Today we're also relaunching our weekly podcast with a video component because apparently you guys like that. It looks sharp. Not a looksmaxxer by nature, I am committed to doing what it takes to look my best for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aZf...
We're about to launch a new newsletter devoted to NYC arts and culture. Having had a peek at it, I am prepared to tell you that it is going to be awesome. You can subscribe to it now at hellgatenyc.com.
Launching for real four years ago meant, among other things, getting serious about being sustainable and subscriber-funded, which meant introducing a paywall. As we wrote to our readers at the time:
May God have mercy on my soul, a 🧵: Four years ago this morning, after several months in trial-balloon "is this a thing" mode, @hellgatenyc.com launched for real. The site looked pretty different back then, but there were so many good stories on the homepage: web.archive.org/web/20220720...
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It took my whole life up until now, but I have finally figured out what kind of guy I want to be, and it’s the kind of guy who takes this supplement.
Throwback to baby reporter Nick dipping into the tall-ship life 20 years ago and bringing back a very earnest account.
Oh hell yes, I love a massive formation of aircraft that is extremely loud and prolonged.
As usual, @hellgatenyc.com's annual trend forecast predicted all of this. hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-20...
Proud to call @adlan.bsky.social a colleague. His response to the mole people question is the sort of deeply thoughtful, humanistic engagement with the issues of the day from which we all benefit.
You know it's going to be a good blog when it starts with italicized front matter.
Chris is right! Lanyard clutching is always a bad look for reporters. hellgatenyc.com/mangionista-...
You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...
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This was probably as close as @hellgatenyc.com is ever going to get to hosting a TED Talk. Subscribe now, support worker-owned local journalism, and get invited to more exclusive events like this one! hellgatenyc.com/membership/
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I have enormous respect for the Tow Center and CJR, but I disagree here. Journalists *should* embrace prediction markets—they just need to be smart about which prediction markets they are relying on. Here's how @hellgatenyc.com is approaching it: hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-a-...
Meanwhile, @noahhurowitz.bsky.social got inside the event: theintercept.com/2026/05/05/z...
SRG vans and cops with the obligatory sheafs of flex-cuffs posted up a block south of the exclusion zone:
In anticipation of protests against the event selling West Bank land at an Upper West Side synagogue this evening, the NYPD is out like it’s the marathon, with barricades restricting access to six city blocks, from 66th to 69th on both Lexington and 3rd Avenues.