FAQ NYC

Episode 163: Rules and Drool, School is in Session

This week we talk with Christina Veiga, a reporter for Chalkbeat New York on the chaotic first week of school from unvaccinated teachers to the challenges for a new Chancellor.

Episode 162: Who by Water and Who by Fire

Katie Honan and Harry Siegel talk with George Joseph of WNYC about the spate of deaths at Rikers, and with Maurizio Guerrero about his reporting for Documented NY on the secret price of a construction worker's life.

Episode 161: A New Day and the Same Old Problems

A huge holiday weekend show with Reuven Blau of the City talking about Rikers, Assemblyman Ron Kim talking about Albany's extraordinary session, rent relief and why he's not done with Andrew Cuomo yet, and David Brand of City Limits talking about the new eviction moratorium.

Episode 160: ‘So Soon After 9/11’

Documentarians Steven Rosenbaum and Pamela Yoder discuss their new film, The Outsider, about the construction of the 9/11 Museum and Memorial and why it feels so cut off from New York City and from the last 20 years.

Episode 159: Rematch?

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who ran a tough race for lieutenant governor against Kathy Hochul in 2018 and says he might run against her for governor in 2022, rejoins the pod.

Episode 158: NY to Cuomo: It's Not Us, It's You

It's a yuge week for New York with new guest host Katie Honan joining the pod and, oh yeah, Andrew Cuomo announcing his resignation. Plus, Afua Atta-Mensah considers the Black pols who agreed to let the governor use them as shields.

Episode 157: ‘I Prayed for a James Report’

As the walls close in on Andrew Cuomo, The City's Josefa Velasquez looks at how the governor got here and how this is likely to end (spoiler: it won't be pretty) and Comptroller Scott Stringer looks back on his mayoral campaign and forward to what's next for him and the city.

Episode 156: The Emperor Has No Clothes

Long-ago Cuomo employee and long-time Cuomo critic Alexis Grenell joins FAQ for a look at how things fell apart for our Emmy-award winning governor.

Episode 155: The View from Room 9

With Sally Goldenberg of Politico NY

Episode 154: Shooting Streets and Selling Dust

Photographer David Godlis and writer Luc Sante talk with Alex and Harry about Godlis Streets, his new book of 1970s street photography, and what was alluring about capturing glimpses of that city and the sometimes alluring "generalized small-time crumminess of so much of that decade."

Episode 153: Book Club: (Low)Life

Jazz and boxing great Charles Farrell visits the pod to talk with Harry and Tim Marchman about his memoir that covers, among other things, playing with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman, fixing fights for the mob, "the Moby Dick of boxing" and lots more. Stick around to the end to hear him play a little piano, too.

Episode 152: Alvin Bragg's Bragging Rights

The Democratic nominee who's all but sure to be the next Manhattan District Attorney visits FAQ.

Episode 151: Fun City Follies

Laura Nahmias joins Chrissy and Harry to talk about the BoE's RCV SNAFU and the state of the election now that it's all over but the counting.

Episode 150: Book Club: Life on the Line

Chrissy has a message for the pundits "explaining" what just happened in New York, and Times reporter and researcher Emma Goldberg discusses her new book on the medical students who became doctors in the city in the midst of the pandemic and reads one incredible passage from it.

Episode 149: Decision Day

The votes are cast, the results are still to come, and Ben Max of Gotham Gazette joins Chrissy and Harry for a late-night break down of what we know (and what we don't yet).

Episode 148: Homestretch

Christina and Harry take one last look at the mayor's race, and Alex Lynn breaks down what's really been happening at Washington Square Park.

Episode 147: The Gracie Bunch

Dianne Morales, Shaun Donovan, Ray McGuire and Kathryn Garcia each call in to answer two tough questions, plus an interview with Paperboy Love Prince.

Episode 146: The End Is Near

Less than three weeks out, and after a "pivotal" second debate in which not much pivoted, Chrissy, Harry and the Wall Street Journal's Katie Honan talk about the mayor's race and the future of New York City.

Episode 145: Down and Out in New York City

We talk about homelessness in in New York City with David Brand of City Limits and Shams DaBaron AKA Da Homeless Hero.

Episode 144: Book Club: Last Call

Author Elon Green joins Nolan Hicks and Harry Siegel to talk about Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York and how a city crew including Rudy Giuliani's mom, Bernard Kerik, Robert Morgenthau, Linda Fairstein, William Bulger and Mike McAclary all tie into that story.

Episode 143: Thomas Kenniff, The 'Boots on the Ground' District Attorney Candidate

Episode 142: Who DA FAQ II

Episode 141: Who DA FAQ? (Part I)

Manhattan District Attorney candidates Tahanie Aboushi, Liz Crotty, Diana Florence and Dan Quart talk to Chrissy, Harry and Alex, and each other about what the prosecutor's office is and what it should be.

Episode 140: The Manhattan DA Race that just hits different.

Rachel Holiday Smith, Manhattan reporter for The City, breaks down the Manhattan DA race with us. Read Rachel's explainer in The CIty https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/1/31/22253418/what-you-need-to-know-about-new-yorks-district-attorney-races-in-2021

Episode 139: Book Club: The Limits of Fulfillment

A conversation with Alec MacGillis, the author of Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, about Amazon and, among many other things, its expansion in New York City AFTER the collapse of its HQ2 plan here as the brave new pandemic economy has accelerated America's great divergence.

Episode 138: The Woke Up Show

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams rejoins the pod to discuss, among other things, the state of policing here, the citywide races and his experience running statewide.

FAQ.NYC Gets Dopey

Dave from the "DOPEY," podcast, shares a few stories about drug addiction and recovery in New York City.

Episode 137: The Turning Point

As we head into the elections home stretch, the great Brigid Bergin of WNYC joins FAQ to break down the race so far, consider where it may end up and explain why we may not know who won for days or even weeks after the June 22nd primary.

Emma Whitford tells us what's up with the new rent relief.

Emma Whitford, reporter at Law360. (https://www.law360.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwmcWDBhCOARIsALgJ2QcV6OqKK2dg-DSA84bt4R0yEXmDAsFcWjF6TSaB-ef8VQPpYUKyF9kaAp3jEALw_wcB) gives us a rundown of the new rent relief from the Federal Government hopfully headed toward New Yorkers this Spring.

Episode 136: Scott Stringer's Dumpster Pool Vision

Episode 135: New York's Police Union Problem

Farah Stockman of the New York Times looks at Suffolk County, where cops call the shots, and Jake Pearson of ProPublica digs into the little known contract clause that means New York City taxpayers are on the hook to defend police officers even when the city won't.

Episode 134: Quickhouse 3: Just Off the Purest Blue

Weather, reviewed, and much more of all the goodness you'll find at the Brickhouse in 5 minutes flat.

Quickhouse 3: Just Off the Purest Blue

Weather, reviewed, and much more of all the goodness you'll find at the Brickhouse in 5 minutes flat.

Episode 133: Nursing Homes are Just the Tip of Cuomo’s Coronavirus Iceberg

The Empire Center's Bill Hammonds talks about the coverup we know about now, and all the things we still don't know.

Episode 132: Quickhouse 2: Shockingly White Clouds

A weather review from Tom Scocca as the last cold day approaches in New York City and a rundown of everything you'll find everything right now at thebrick.house, all in under 5 minutes.

Quickhouse 2: Shockingly White Clouds

A weather review from Tom Scocca as the last cold day approaches in New York City and a rundown of everything you'll find everything right now at thebrick.house, all in under 5 minutes.

Episode 131: Radical Ron Kim

A conversation about blackmail, politics and human beings with the Assemblyman who started the avalanche that just might bury Andrew Cuomo.

Episode 130: A Remarkable Ramble With Rangel

Charles Rangel takes Chrissy and Harry on a long, fascinating stroll through his life and career and explains why he thinks a a second Reconstruction is now beginning in America.

Welcome to the Quickhouse!

A tasty mini-pod — 5 minutes flat!—with a rundown from Brickhouse managing editor Emma Roller of what you'll find right now at our little cooperative of creators making ad-free, wolf-proof journalism and art by humans for humans PLUS a NYC weather review from Hmm Weekly's Tom Scocca.

Episode 129: Welcome to the Quickhouse!

A tasty mini-pod — 5 minutes flat!—with a rundown from Brickhouse managing editor Emma Roller of what you'll find right now at our little cooperative of creators making ad-free, wolf-proof journalism and art by humans for humans PLUS a NYC weather review from Hmm Weekly's Tom Scocca.

Episode 128: Cuomo in the Corner

Josefa Velasquez of The City talks with Chrissy and Harry about how, after a decade, the governor finally painted himself into a corner he might not be able to walk out of.

Cuomo's Vaccine Passports and NYC's Shotty Shotspotter technology

Albert Fox Cahn of The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, S.T.O.P., and the podcast Surveillance and the City talks to Alex Brook Lynn about Cuomo's Vaccine Passports for sports arenas and Shotspotter the technology used to detect gunshots. For more information on the topics disscussed in theis episode see: Cuomo's Vaccine Passports https://statescoop.com/new-york-pilot-mobile-covid-19-vaccine-passport-ibm/ Shotspotter lawsuit and law enforcment scandal in Rodchester, NY https://www....

Episode 126: The Gotham Book Prize and the State of Gotham

Episode 125: Ray McGuire Will Be Your Huckleberry

Episode 124: City on the Verge

Episode 123: Dianne Morales Doesn't Have a Poker Face

Episode 122: Kathryn Garcia's Not About the Razzle Dazzle

Episode 121: Disaster Follows Shaun Donovan

The former housing commissioner under Mayor Bloomberg and HUD secretary and then OMB director under President Obama explains why he's running for mayor now, and what the city needs at this moment of crises.

Episode 120: Andrew Yang's New York Math

The presidential candidate turned mayoral candidate joins Christina and Harry for a lively conversation about what the city needs and why he's running.

Episode 119: State Dad Always Wins

Jimmy Vielkind of the Wall Street Journal discusses New York's sorry vaccine rollout, and the state of Cuomo's State of the State.