FAQ NYC
359 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsA weekly dive into the big questions about this city of ours, hosted by Christina Greer, Azi Paybarah and Harry Siegel, and produced by Alex Brook Lynn.
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Episode 344: 'From a Concerned New Yorker’
April 08, 2024 20:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBChrissy and Harry discuss a week where the earth shook, the sun hid and everything else in New York City kept on ticking, plus how Mayor Eric Adams is positioning himself for his reelection campaign next year and much more.
Episode 343: The Power of Magical Thinking
April 03, 2024 00:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBAlbert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project breaks down the problems with the mayor’s plan to deploy "weapons detectors" — which are really just metal tube detectors — in the train system. Plus hosts Chrissy, Katie and Harry discuss the NYPD's hyper-aggressive new approach to its perceived enemies on social media, and much more.
Episode 342: Lucy Sante Reflects on Writing the Story of Her Life, and Her Transition
March 29, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBThe writer returns to the pod for an depth-conversation about her new memoir, I Heard Her Call My Name.
Episode 341: The Harassment Tax on Women
March 25, 2024 18:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBHosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss the Adams administration's women problem — and why his political rivals aren't talking about it — Trump's trials, the groups railing against congestion pricing and much more.
Episode 340: Another Death Spiral for a Manhattan Hospital
March 18, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBHosts Chrissy, Katie and Harry talk subway scares and safety, and Politico New York health care reporter Maya Kaufman breaks down her reporting on Beth Israel transferring out seriously ill ER patients and much more.
Episode 339: The Guard is Underground and the Vibes Are Grim
March 11, 2024 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBHosts Chrissy, Katie and Harry discuss Kathy Hochul's wild decision to deploy the National Guard in New York City's subway system, and much more.
Episode 338: An FBI Raid and a 3-K Pickle
March 04, 2024 20:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBChrissy, Katie and Harry dig into what's happening with Winnie Greco, Eric Adams and the feds, and Politico NY education reporter Madina Touré breaks down what's happening with the city's badly needed yet under-filled 3-K program.
Episode 337: ‘The Whole Point of Government’
February 26, 2024 21:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBHosts Christina and Harry talk about e-bike fires, Letitia James’s winning streak, and much more.
Episode 336: The Freaks Came Out To Write
February 24, 2024 18:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBIn a pre-internet world, the Village Voice was a newspaper like no other: a haven for writers about avant garde arts, Black politics, queer identity and a million things more — and that's after the pages devoted to exposing the seamy side of New York City politics. In this episode of FAQ NYC, Alyssa Katz, the executive editor of THE CITY who worked at the Voice early in her career, interviews Tricia Romano, author of the new book "The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of The Vi...
Episode 335: Trump’s Trials and NYC’s Plague Year
February 21, 2024 03:00 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBHosts Chrissy and Katie discuss the $364 million former President Trump was ordered to pay to New York in a fraud case, as well as his brand-new sneakers and the FBI's investigation into the FDNY. Plus, there's a Vital City interview between physician and epidemiologist Jay Varma and Sociologist Erik Klinenberg, author of the newly published book ‘2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.’
Episode 334: Hazard NYC: The Gowanus Canal
February 14, 2024 20:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBThe Gowanus Canal is a “toxic Wonderland” in the midst of a neighborhood undergoing a complicated transformation. Hear from locals, government officials and developers about the future of the area — and what challenges stand in the way of a cleaner, more resilient community. Samantha Maldonado, senior reporter at THE CITY, and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dig in on the final episode of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series exploring the city’s Superfund sites.
Episode 333: Hazard NYC: The Wolff-Alport Chemical Company
February 14, 2024 19:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBA small patch of land and the buildings located on it contain radiological contamination, posing a cancer risk for workers on the site and nearby neighbors. Work is ongoing to get rid of the threat — but it hasn’t been easy to get there. Samantha Maldonado, senior reporter at THE CITY, and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dig in on episode three of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series exploring the city’s Superfund sites.
Episode 332: Hazard NYC: The Meeker Ave. Plume
February 14, 2024 18:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBAn underground spill of chemicals in North Brooklyn is the latest focus of community efforts to clean up a neighborhood that’s long dealt with industrial pollution. Hear from locals who live on top of the so-called Meeker Avenue Plume and want people to remember, as one neighbor said, “It’s more than just a toxic site.” THE CITY’s senior reporter Samantha Maldonado and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dive in on episode two of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series ex...
Episode 331: Hazard NYC: Newtown Creek
February 13, 2024 17:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBNewtown Creek is one of the country’s most polluted waterways. Flooding from sea level rise and storms threatens to spread the creek’s contamination and bring pollution from outside the water into it. The feds are figuring out how to include climate change into the clean-up plan they’re developing. THE CITY’s senior reporter Samantha Maldonado and independent journalist Jordan Gass-Pooré dive in on episode one of Hazard NYC, a four-part FAQ NYC Presents limited series exploring the city’s Sup...
Episode 330: NYC's Terrible HIV and AIDS Blindspot
February 11, 2024 14:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBGuest host Richard Kim, THE CITY's editor in chief, talks to journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focusing on overlooked populations including intravenous drug users, incarcerated people, and the pediatric patients separated from their families "who lived and died their entire lives on the ward of Harlem Hospital" — and the individuals and communities who stepped up and stepped in where institutions fai...
Episode 329: Tin Cup Day
February 05, 2024 21:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBWill Eric Adams finally have his Aaron Judge year in Albany, or at least get north of the Mendoza line? The FAQ hosts discuss that, the dark and distorted ways local New York City news is showing up nationally as the presidential election gets underway and much more.
Episode 328: Once a Cop, Always a Cop
January 30, 2024 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBOn the FAQ NYC podcast, Chrissy, Katie and Harry discuss the brouhaha over a police officer pulling over Public Safety Chair Yusef Salaam in the middle of an online City Council hearing, and much more. Plus, Craig Gurian of the Anti-Discrimination Center explains his group's settlement with the city that sharply cuts the share of affordable housing units that can be set aside for people inside of a given community district — and why that’s a good thing. Listen here.
Episode 327: A Staff Walkout at the Daily News
January 25, 2024 02:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBJournalists Ellen Moynihan, Chris Sommerfeldt and Michael Sheridan talk to host Katie Honan about why almost the entire staff of New York's hometown paper is walking out of their newsroom, such as it is, on Thursday, and why that matters.
Episode 326: Is Democracy Reemerging Inside of NYC’s Dominant Democratic Party?
January 22, 2024 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBDo old politicians ever learn new tricks? And what do they do when new politicians try and claim their spaces? The FAQ NYC crew discusses all of that, and much more.
Episode 325: Is It a Crime, Empire State Edition
January 17, 2024 17:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBKatie Honan, Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss the mayor and the governor's budget proposals, Eric Adams' legal defense and campaign fundraising, and more.
Episode 324: A Tale of Two Adamses
January 09, 2024 00:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBWith his approval rating below 30%, Mayor Eric Adams has been trading personal barbs with the public advocate while his administration refuses to implement a law passed by the City Council. Hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss whether there’s a method to his madness, and much more.
Episode 323: How U.S. Cities Lost the Plot on Mass Transit
January 05, 2024 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBIn his new book, “The Lost Subways of North America,” author and cartographer Jake Berman has compiled nearly two dozen historical portraits of cities from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. to show how the great and not-so-great mass transit systems of the U.S. and Canada came to be and what their history tells us about America’s future. In this episode of FAQ NYC Off Cycle, THE CITY Executive Editor Alyssa Katz interviews Berman about the art of mapmaking, the secrets to the success of the few cit...
Episode 322: Eric Adams' Deck of Jokers
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBWhat's up with the City Hall's undisciplined approach of calling reporters "clowns"? The FAQ NYC crew kicks off 2024 with a discussion of that and much more.
Episode 321: New York Minutes for Ink-Stained Wretches
December 30, 2023 15:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBIn the third and final installment of the pod's year-end mini-series of stories about a "New York minute," you'll hear from Michael Gartland and Ellen Moynihan of the Daily News, telling yarns about found beef, cops and lost cats. They’re followed by Justin Miller of New York Magazine on hearing an unsolicited tale of massages and romances. Finally, Mark Jacobson, the journalist and novelist who, among other things, wrote the articles Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet and The Return of Superf...
Episode 320: Another New York Minute
December 28, 2023 22:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBIn the second of three year-end episodes featuring stories about "a New York minute," natives Katie Honan and David Ray Martinez talk soap operas and families before transplants J.T. Price and Adam Levy talk about courteous robbers and courting wives.
Episode 319: ‘A New York Minute’
December 28, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBHere's the first of three off-beat, year-end episodes of stories about a New York minute, with a pair about the drug business told by Cliff Michel and Steve Lynn, and then a pair about gloom, glamor and gunmption told by Huge Perez and Flo Ankah.
Episode 318: Adams’ Angst Is Real
December 12, 2023 01:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBThe mayor's poll numbers are down and the vultures are out, but there's still a year and a half before voters are supposed to have their say again.
Episode 317: George Santos Defines Democracy's Deterioration
December 05, 2023 03:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBIs Eric Adams really in political trouble? Will George Santos ever really go away? Are the Mekons truly golden? Chrissy, Katie and Harry discuss all that and much more.
Episode 316: N.Y. vs. Everything
December 02, 2023 17:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBPolitico's new New York editor Sally Goldenberg visits the pod to talk about the state of the city now, what she saw in her months in the wilderness covering the Republican presidential campaign, and much more.
Episode 315: Is This ‘A City in Crisis’?
November 28, 2023 01:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBMayor Eric Adams, who won office talking about making New York feel safer, is cutting spending on core services even as his own poll numbers are plummeting and as critics are talking, however cynically, about “a city in crisis.” Co-hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss all that, the last big cases to emerge from the Adult Survivors Act and much more.
Episode 314: Pigeon Swag, Queens Boys and Turkey Talk
November 23, 2023 13:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBRemember that time that Andrew Cuomo tried to push aside Carl McCall? Co-host Christina Greer does. With the former governor reportedly considering a run against newly embattled Mayor Eric Adams, she and Katie Honan talk about that episode and lots more.
Episode 313: A Novel About Flying Cars Lands Right on Time
November 20, 2023 15:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBBradley Tusk joins host Harry Siegel to discuss his new novel, Obvious in Hindsight, about a company working to legalize flying cards and — sound familiar? — a mayor of New York City in the crosshairs of the FBI.
Episode 312: What George Santos Sees in the Mirror
November 18, 2023 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBMark Chiusano, author of "The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos," talks with guest host Azi Paybarah of the Washington Post about this character in the aftermath of the brutal new House ethics report about him.
Episode 311: A Drip Drip Drip That Eric Adams Can’t Abide
November 14, 2023 01:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBA conversation about the mayor, the feds, the “geniuses” doing communications and much more, with co-hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel.
Episode 310: Election Extra with Ben Max
November 08, 2023 15:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBA Republican beat an incumbent to claim a Council seat in the Bronx, while a Republican incumbent fell short in Brooklyn.
Episode 309: The Feds Move In and the Mayor Leans Back
November 06, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBForget about Trump testifying and everything else from another jam-packed week in New York City: Chrissy, Katie and Harry spend all of this episode talking about the FBI's raid of his chief fundraiser's house and where that leaves Eric Adams and New York City.
Episode 308: The FDNY Keeps Shutting Down Migrant Shelters
October 30, 2023 22:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBCo-hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss kids in tents, city hall’s crude insult comedy, Eric Adams’ strong political hand and much more.
Episode 307: NYC's New Plan for Migrant Families ‘Is Like Being a Little Bit Pregnant’
October 23, 2023 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBChristine Quinn and Bishop Matthew Heyd explain how their new coalition, called NY Sane, aims to pressure the mayor and governor to treat migrants the same way they would any one else seeking shelter here.
Episode 306: The Mayor Can't Help It
October 17, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBCo-hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss Eric Adams' discipline problem, Republican allies, his multi-lingual AI voice avatar and much more.
Episode 305: A Shrill Trump, Rude Throats and Dread Clamours
October 11, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBWhat did Eric Adams trip south of the border accomplish? The FAQ NYC hosts discuss that and much more in an episode centered on how the world's events register, with or without pomp and circumstance, in the city's politics.
Episode 304: The Sign Painters’ Image Shaper
October 08, 2023 01:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBKatie Honan talks with Aviram Cohen about his work supporting brothers Carlos and Miguel Cevallos as their hand-painted signs went from a secret of sorts to a sensation.
Episode 303: Adams Unleashes Flood of Words After Storm Silence
October 02, 2023 23:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBFollowing his failure to communicate before his city was flooded, the mayor made the media rounds to insist he’d performed perfectly. Sound familiar? Come to hear hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss that, and stick around for an enlightening interview with Adams, speaking with Vital City, about gun violence, the right way and the wrong way for police to do stops, questions and frisks, and much more.
Episode 302: High Times, NYC an an Exceptional Agent of Chaos
September 30, 2023 15:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBAuthor Sean Howe goes deep into some of the stories in his wild new book, "Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s."
Episode 301: If You Zone It, They Will Build
September 26, 2023 23:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBCity Planning Commission Director Daniel Garodnick makes the case for the Adams administration’s hugely ambitious new plan to update “our zoning rules that have over time gotten in the way,” so that developers can build what City Hall has described as “a little more housing in every neighborhood” adding up to a projected 100,000 new homes over 15 years.
Episode 300: Three Rocks, Two Cartoonists and the Story of the Bronx Boy Behind ‘Nancy’
September 23, 2023 20:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBBill Griffith discusses his new graphic novel, "Three Rocks," about Ernie Bushmiller, the cartoonist who created the iconic strip, and goes deep into some New York City newspaper history in the process.
Episode 299: ‘When Does the Hard Part Start?’ This Is the Hard Part.
September 19, 2023 01:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBJust two years ago, more than 90 percent of New Yorkers applying for food stamps and other benefits received them in a timely fashion. Now, it’s fewer than 30 percent. Co-hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss what it means for New Yorkers, and for the mayor, when stuff isn’t getting done, and much more.
Episode 298: Why Doesn’t NYC Just Let Migrants Work?
September 12, 2023 01:00 - 44 minutes - 20.3 MBState Sen. Zellnor Myrie rejoins the pod for a lively conversation about his plan for the city to do just that, and much more.
Episode 297: The Mayor's Magical Thinking
September 06, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBEric Adams is done with Covid, but Covid may not be done with New York City. The FAQ NYC hosts dig into that and much more in a post-Labor Day, return-of-the-school-year episode.
Episode 296: New Yorkers Run Low on Sympathy for Migrants as the Feds Run Low on Sympathy for NYC
August 31, 2023 19:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBWith a new poll showing most people in the city think New York has already done enough for migrants, co-host Christina Greer talks with Harry Siegel about what that means for a place where a lot of people are "progressive in theory," why she's sounding an alarm for Eric Adams given the history of Black mayors in America, and much more.
Episode 295: Who's in Charge Here?!
August 25, 2023 02:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBHosts Christina Greer and Katie Honan break down another jam-packed week in New York City, covering migrant housing plans, questionable donors to Adams' 2021 campaign, and who holds down the city when the mayor, for a variety of possible reasons, cannot.