Christopher Robbins
@ChristRobbins
nyc reporter, editor, co-publisher of @HellGateNY / tips & pitches: [email protected]
work in @nymag @streetsblognyc formerly @Gothamist @VillageVoice
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http://hellgatenyc.com 02-05-2011 00:12:00
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You could read this Office of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander report on how the Adams administration was caught less-than-prepared during the 8 inches of rain last September.
Or, you could recall this screenshot from the mayor's press conference, hours after the flooding began...
hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-fl…
First Columbia University now New York University:
'The cops stormed in with their sticks and they started arresting people by the dozen, and they started to pepper-spray people left and right.'
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Free idea: As the Trump trial circus gets underway, I invite any journalists wondering why they’re in a crowded scrum generating multiply redundant coverage to just step into a different courtroom and report on the non-celebrity criminal legal apparatus: hellgatenyc.com/just-another-d…
NYC is getting congestion pricing in June.
If we had adopted this plan back in 2008, we would have saved ourselves 150,000 years (!) by now.
Thanks to Heatmap News for letting me do this 'fun' thought experiment:
heatmap.news/climate/new-yo…
'People talk about the decline of newspapers,' Newspaper Guild of Rochester chair Tracy Schuhmacher told Hell Gate, 'but the kind of support we’ve received tells us we still matter.'
hellgatenyc.com/rochester-demo…