New York has a plan to finally get off fossil fuels within the next 20 years. Doing that will mean changing a lot about how we live, from what our buildings look like to how we get around and where our electricity comes from. Can we pull it off? This week, Hell Gate visits one of NYC's oldest power plants in Queens, and a solar-paneled HDFC co-op in Harlem to find out.

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When Hell Gate first discussed how to cover the Trump arraignment, the consensus was, let's not. But then our own Max Rivlin-Nadler snagged a spot at the front of the courthouse press line and...well, we ran with it. This week: Dispatches from The Line, the Marjorie Taylor Greene counterprotest, and yes, inside the courtroom with Donald Trump.

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Budget season is heating up, baby!! And Hell Gate is here to break it down for you. First, we look at why the New York state budget process is such a shitshow, and why a newly empowered state legislature could mean even more chaos this year. Then, we chat with Kim Phillips-Fein, professor of history at Columbia University and author of Fear City, about Eric Adams' proposed austerity budget, his beloved "high-income earners," and the lingering impacts of the 1970s fiscal crisis.

Read Hell Gate's full interview with Kim Phillips-Fein here.

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Where does New York’s bail reform debate stand? And what does pretrial detention mean for those who have to suffer through it? Hell Gate catches up with Prakash Churaman, who spent his teen years being shuffled through New York’s carceral system and just barely survived. We also talk with Jullian Harris-Calvin, director of the Greater Justice New York program at the Vera Institute of Justice, for some broader context on how bail reform became such a political live wire.

You can read Max Rivlin-Nadler's reporting on Prakash Churaman's case here, here, here, and here.

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What’s a “racino”? Why does Governor Hochul want to use slot machine money to help fund the MTA? Is Mets owner Steve Cohen going to build a casino on the Citi Field parking lot? Hell Gate visits Resorts World New York City in deep Queens and chats with reporter Neil DeMause to answer these questions and more. 

Read Neil DeMause’s Mets casino story here.

Check out the New York State Comptroller’s 2020 report on gambling revenues here. 

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