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Spoken to plenty of Latino Trump voters, and many basically said: "The economy sucked for me under Biden. Covid shutdowns, inflation, housing costs going up. Entonces—he's fired. Time for something new." Sometimes it's not more deep than that. Carville has a line about this...

A remarkable interactive map of red shifts in NYC by neighborhood — with more than five lost Democratic voters (573,618 fewer votes for Harris than Biden) for every one new Trump voter (94,611 more votes than in 2020) thecity.nyc/2024/11/08/tru…

Loved doing this story. It was fascinating. npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-…

Some good news for once: The broker fee as we know it is likely over in New York City.

NEW w/Olivia Bensimon, Instacart, and other grocery delivery services, are not a part of the city's minimum wage law for delivery workers. Recent arrivals from West African countries are turning to this work, with few other options to make ends meet. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/11/14/new…

NYC says the meals they serve Muslim migrants at the Creedmoor shelter are halal. Except, the halal food is mixed with non-halal food. "Sometimes we eat it, just to not pass out." Reporting from Erin Durkin and Olivia Bensimon hellgatenyc.com/the-city-says-…

Riviera Hospitality Group, the contractor that provides food for the Creedmoor shelter in Queens, admits in paperwork filed with the state that it mixes together halal and non-halal food and passes it off as halal. By Erin Durkin and Olivia Bensimon: hellgatenyc.com/the-city-says-…

"They're scared kids who still want to be mothered and fathered and had to leave because not making that decision could have killed them." Heartbreaking story from Olivia Bensimon about NYC's asylum-seeking teenagers who are falling through the cracks hellgatenyc.com/teenage-migran…

Untold numbers of migrant youth aged 21 and under have come by themselves to NYC, hoping to gain asylum, go to school, and find stability—instead, they're treated as adults by the City and shuffled around from shelter to shelter. Olivia Bensimon reports: hellgatenyc.com/teenage-migran…

Stories that surface why migrants have been forced to flee their home countries and what they face to survive in America aren't common enough. Thanks to Hell Gate *subscribe today!* for this one: hellgatenyc.com/teenage-migran…

Update: According to numbers provided by City Hall, almost 16,000 migrants who were between the ages of 18 and 21 when they arrived have been in the City's care since 2022. Read the story here: hellgatenyc.com/teenage-migran…

Each interview for this story broke my heart (read at your own risk of heartbreak) Hell Gate *subscribe today!* hellgatenyc.com/teenage-migran…

As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhattan-…

NYC approved 955 people living on the streets and subways for supportive housing last year. Only 18% actually moved into an apartment. Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social for THE CITY thecity.nyc/2025/01/06/hom…

The migrant shelter on Randall's Island is supposed to close by the end of next month. But the Adams administration just sent scores of men to live there, in sub-freezing temperatures. "It's very, very cold here" Olivia Bensimon has the story: hellgatenyc.com/adams-administ…

Behind New York City's e-bike and moped boom is a little-known ex-delivery worker who has quietly built a micromobility empire. I spent a year looking into him and the freewheeling industry through which he rose. My last story for Streetsblog New York streetsblogprojects.org/fly-electric-b…

Fed up with seeing cops staring at their phones in the subway system, Mayor Adams had a request for New Yorkers who spotted the same thing: send him a photo. See what he got in response, thanks to a three-year old FOIL request that was finally answered: hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-co…

🚨 "I painted his room. I fixed it up for when he arrives. I bought him balloons." Ángel's father prepared for his son's deportation to Venezuela — only to discover he was sent from the Bronx to CECOT in El Salvador instead. documentedny.com/2025/05/05/ang…

"I love New York, and I love the job of being a reporter...Reporting is the best job you can have. You get paid to talk to people." journalism.cuny.edu/2025/05/in-mem…

For our latest Talk Mayor to Me series, Olivia Bensimon spoke to voters in Jackson Heights, and on the Staten Island Ferry. "I was at work and I was telling [my coworker], 'Yo, I'm really gonna vote this time. This is some serious shit." hellgatenyc.com/talk-mayor-to-…