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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:52 UTC

The founders of Temporary State University want to teach the next generation how to throw DIY shows in New York City.

We asked co-founder Jordan Michael Iannucci, formerly of Showpaper and Silent Barn, for his recommendations in this edition of LEAVE YOUR APARTMENT:

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:49 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:32 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:31 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:31 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

The first piece of good Penn Station news in years.

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:18 UTC

If you've been to Bed-Stuy's Herbert Von King Park lately, you've probably run into DJ Elijah Prince, who is there spinning house music (almost) every day. Meghna Rao profiled Prince, who is "keeping the communal, fast-disappearing spirit of NYC alive."

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:18 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:25 UTC

This week's $20 DINNER takes our correspondent to A rooftop? Near Penn Station? To eat Roberta's pizza? Delightful.

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:11 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:40 UTC

In the coming months, and at great expense, all the courtesy, professionalism, and respect you've come to expect from the NYPD is going away.

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:17 UTC

A reporter ventures to one of the city's pet cooling centers, in the hopes of saving some money on his electricity bill, sparing his own guilt about the environment, and keeping his scruffy friend nice and cool...and finds out that they're pretty sick.

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:35 UTC

The question of whether to take NYC’s broken jail system out of City control is an urgent one for the people inside facing stabbings, slashings, neglect and death—but the legal process inches forward with a court hearing today. hellgatenyc.com/rikers-receive…

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:11 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 13:14 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 13:33 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:12 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 02:04 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:06 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:37 UTC

The popular narrative about cannabis legalization in New York state is that slow and confusing regulatory action bungled the rollout of retail weed. According to equity advocates, that's exactly what corporate cannabis companies (and Governor Hochul) want you to think.

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:23 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:22 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:19 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:19 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:18 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:12 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:14 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:34 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:32 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:24 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:22 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:12 UTC

Did you know Alan Dershowitz has an honorary stone on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Celebrity Path?

One New Yorker recently stumbled upon his stone—and decided to do something about it.

The vandal tells all (and Dershowitz reacts): hellgatenyc.com/alan-dershow...

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:07 UTC

NY Lawmakers Dither While New Yorkers Die Preventable Traffic Deaths

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

GrowNYC’s Greenmarket Compost Drop-Offs Are Gone for Good Community composting got $6.2 million in the budget, but the climate-saving initiative has had a "bittersweet" few weeks.

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

With the City not budging on subsidies, and an investor-owned company demanding profits, who gets screwed for making a public transportation system too popular? Naturally, the riders.

Happy Independence Day, from Lyft!

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:55 UTC

Housing developers: Look, we're all trying to find the guy who did this (housing crisis).

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[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:14 UTC

If NYC's newest food micro-trend has shown us anything, it's that gas stations should ditch the whole "fossil fuels" schtick and focus solely on making first-rate munchies, like the ones featured in this week's $20 Dinner. hellgatenyc.com/blue-hour-ha...

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[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:35 UTC

Our very own Esther Wang spoke about the growth of worker-owned news outlets with Laura Flanders: "We're the ones who make the decisions about what to publish. It's all of us, the journalists, who decide how the company is run."

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[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:22 UTC

Due to the Loss of Congestion Pricing, New Jerseyans Must Pay $1,000 to Watch the July 4 Fireworks Call it "combustion pricing."

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[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:49 UTC

Some extremely exciting news—we're debuting a new advice column, "Oh, Hell," later this month. Send in your questions to tips@hellgatenyc.com. No topic is too small, no question is too weird—ask away!

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[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

In "N/A," two people who have been reduced to depoliticized memes—Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—are ushered into another often toothless sphere: the unsubtle mainstream liberal fantasy realm of commercial theater.

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[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:20 UTC

So after three years, and its most successful year ever at staving off the mayor's cuts (but not investing in more substantive programs to help New Yorkers), has the City Council finally had enough of this budget game? Sure seems like it.

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[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 19:14 UTC

Be Patient. Assembly Speaker Heastie Says He Has a 'Game Plan' for Congestion Pricing "Just because you can’t see the play by play doesn’t mean a game plan isn’t being executed."

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